The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps
Die Männer mit dem rosa Winkel
Heinz Heger David Fernbach
Overview
It has only been since the mid-1970s that any attention has been paid to the persecution and interment of gay men by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Since that time, books such as Richard Plant's
(and Martin Sherman's play
) have illuminated this nearly lost history. Heinz Heger's first-person account,
, was one of the first books on the topic and remains one of the most important.