Lexicon on the persecution of homosexuals 1933–1945
The Lexicon on the Persecution of Homosexuals 1933–1945 , subtitled Institutions - People - Areas of Activity , is an encyclopedia published in 2011 on the history of homosexuality in the time of National Socialism .
The lexicon was written by the sexologist and medical historian Günter Grau ; Instead of a preface, Rüdiger Lautmann provided the contribution Emancipation and Repression - Pitfalls in History . The almost 400-page book offers keywords, a list of sources and photo credits as well as a separate register of persons to quickly find the persons mentioned in the lexicon.
The spine describes the content of the lexicon as follows:
“Homosexuals belonged to one of the main enemy groups of the Nazi regime . Little is known about their fate. The lexicon of the medical historian known through relevant publications documents the current state of research in around 250 meticulously created articles.
The key words provide detailed information about laws , secret orders and special actions, about the number of convicts and about the institutions and persons responsible for the repression policy. In addition to conceptual historical keywords ( healthy public sentiment, homosexual paragraph, homocaust, homosexual Nazis) there are event-related lemmas (Röhm murder, Fritsch-Blomberg crisis, morality trials) as well as fact-based articles on the procedures in the SS and police, in the Wehrmacht and Hitler Youth, the occupied territories and in the concentration camps, but also on the situation in the clerical-fascist dictatorships in Italy and Spain. Some articles offer background information on complex content (population policy, women's policy, criminal biology, castration, twin research).
For historians and the general interested, the lexicon offers a wealth of facts on the collective fate of persecution of this group of victims. "
The lexicon was published in 2011 in the history, research and science series as volume 21 in Berlin and Münster in Verlag Lit under ISBN 978-3-8258-9785-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Text according to the spine of the dictionary
- ↑ Information from the German National Library