How Did Queer People Experience Nazi Germany? with Dr. W. Jake Newsome
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What Was Life Like for Queer German's After World War Two
After the end of world war two all prisoners who had been rounded up and imprisoned based on racial religious or political reasons were to be immediately released. Those who were so called common criminals were to be kept in prison because they didn't want that to endanger Germany. So since the pink triangle prisoners had broken a national law that technically predated the Nazis the americans considered gay men to be common criminals. Any of these pink triangle prisoners who still had a time left to serve on their sentence were taken from the concentration camp to a local prison to serve the rest of that time right mind-blowing um which i guess honestly it shouldn't be right all the allied forces including America had anti-gay
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