Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals Last Day

Mon 28 Nov. 100 Rauol Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C., 20024-2126. Andrea Lewis, 202-314-7810, alewis@ushmm.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - [events]

September 19, 2011 - November 28, 2011 PLACE University of Louisville William F. Ekstrom Library 2301 South 3rd St. Louisville, KY 40203, USA Details NAZI Persecution OF Homosexuals 1933 - 1945 Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany sought domination over Europe and, in what is now called the Holocaust, the total annihilation of Europe's Jews. As part of its effort to create a "master Aryan race," the Nazi government persecuted other groups, including Germany's homosexual men. Believing them to be carriers of a "degeneracy" that threatened the nation's "disciplined masculinity" and hindered population growth, the Nazi state incarcerated in prisons and concentration camps tens of thousands of men as a means of terrorizing German homosexuals into social confor