Brutal Torture of Gay Men under Nazi Regime - Nazi Germany
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- Brutal Torture of Gay Men under Nazi Regime - Nazi Germany. Despite the fact that homosexuality was illegal, in the mid- to late-nineteenth century, there were indications of nascent and growing gay communities in Germany
Political and social conditions even allowed for people to publicly campaign for the decriminalization of sexual relations between men and the repeal of “Paragraph 175” which from 1871 banned sexual relations between men. In terms of legal policy relating to the German criminal code, the Nazi Party opposed efforts to decriminalize sexual relations between men and repeal Paragraph 175. The Nazi Party denounced homosexuality as a deviation from normal behavior that was completely antithetical to its fundamental belief in the need to increase the
pure, "Aryan" population and proper family life.
However, there were known gay men even in the Nazi movement, most notably Ernst Röhm who used the word “same-sex oriented”, to describe himself.
After the Nazis came to power on the 30th of January, 1933, they sought to dismantle the visible gay cultures and networks that had developed during the Weimar Republic. The Nazis used new laws and police practices to arrest and detain without trial a limited number of gay men beginning in late 1933 and early 1934.
The Nazi German judicial system also introduced castration into legal practice. As of late 1933, courts could order mandatory castration for certain sexual offenders. However, at least initially, men arrested under Paragraph 175 could not be castrated without their supposed consent but in some cases, men imprisoned under this statute could secure early release if they volunteered to be castrated. One such man was Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim.
In fall 1934, Reinhard Heydrich ordered the police of all large cities to make a list of known homosexuals. These lists have come to be known as the “pink lists,” although this is not what the Nazis or the police called them.
In late 1934, the Gestapo, which was the official political police, raided gay bars and made mass arrests of homosexual men; most of whom were not involved in politics.
Three events in the years 1934-1936 radicalized the Nazi regime’s campaign against homosexuality and led to more systematic oppression of gay men.
First was the murder of Ernst Röhm and other SA leaders in June-July 1934.
Second, in June 1935 the Nazis revised Paragraph 175, the statute of the German criminal code that banned sexual relations between men.
Finally, in 1936 SS leader and Chief of the German Police Heinrich Himmler established the Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion.
The Nazi campaign against homosexuality intensified in 1935-1936.
In the mid- to late 1930s, the police raided bars and other meeting places that they believed to be popular with gay men.
A neighbor, acquaintance, colleague, friend, or family member could inform the police of their suspicions.
There were gay men who took the risk of resisting the Nazi state for political and personal reasons. Some gay men helped hide Jews or joined underground anti-Nazi resistance groups. Such was a case of Willem Arondeus, a gay member of the Dutch resistance, who on the 27th of March 1943, during the German occupation of the Netherlands, participated in an attack on the Amsterdam Population Registry offices.
Not all of approximately 100,000 men arrested under Paragraph 175 during the Nazi regime shared the same fate.
Between 5,000 and 15,000 men were imprisoned in concentration camps as “homosexual” offenders.
The pink triangle called attention to this prisoner population as a distinct group within the concentration camp system. According to many survivor accounts, pink triangle prisoners were among the most abused groups in the camps. SS guards murdered homosexual prisoners out of cruelty or during sadistic games.
Beginning in November 1942, concentration camp commandants officially had the power to order the forced castration of pink triangle prisoners.
Josef Kohout, imprisoned under Paragraph 175, was 24 when he was arrested in March 1939 when his Christmas card to his male lover had been intercepted.
Scholars estimate that there were approximately 100,000 arrests under Paragraph 175 during the Nazi regime. More than 53,000 resulted in convictions.
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We weren't so kind to homosexuals ourselves, look what happened to Allen Turin who worked to break the anigma codes and built the first computer
And the US's "Lavender Scare" in the 1950s.
@@quinnh4313 Nice. Blame the victim. Too much homophobia even in this century.
@@quinnh4313 😂🤣😂
Exactly… It was just a different kind of torture.
@@marcellobomfim5629 Precisely. I don't know why some "straights" hate LGBT people so. Is it something they fear in themselves? I discount what Paul has to say about it because, frankly, he was a man who had hang-ups about women, and about LGBT people. That was one conflicted chap.
I worked with a man many years ago who was a concentration camp survivor. I didn't know he was in a camp until I noticed the numbered tattoo on his arm. The things that he told me that was done to him and the other Jews brought tears to my eyes but he said to me "Mark don't cry because it's a part of history that will never be repeated. " To this day I can't even imagine going through what he went through. R.I.P. Felix Salzburg 😢😔
I met a woman who had a tattoo I asked her if she ever thought of having it removed she replied: This is a badge of survival to me. When i asked how do you mean ? she replied the bastards who did this are all dead but I'm still alive !
Lets hope to God it isn't repeated but we must never take that for granted.
@@josephmetz890
Unfortunately it could be repeated, the white nationalists are regrouping. As you heard in this documentary it started with the hate towards the Jews then the anti abortion campaign and then with the homosexuals. Does any of this sound familiar ? We are living it again but it is much slower pace. People better wake up before it goes full steam ahead. -
@@josephmetz890 it's also up to us as humans to not to forget and work not to let this happen again.
It will be repeated because no one cares to study history.
i am a heterosexual man who was partially raised by a gay couple, friends of my mum, who had me refer to them as my fairy god parents… i miss them so much, john died of aids and graham passed recently….the most loving ,amazing ,caring and kind people. i am very protective of my homosexual bruthas…..why do people care so much what other people do? crazy
Exactly! People are too concern about what others do behind closed doors.
Nazism = Christianity
As a 76 y-o gay man, growing up surrounded by Xian fundamentalists, I often wondered the same thing. As an adolescent, I knew I was Hellbound, since they taught me that if you think something, it's the same as doing it, in 'the eyes of God'. I escaped, in my late teens, and never looked back.
@@Polyphemus47yeah thought crime should be the nail in the coffin for Christianity if it weren’t for everything else
It is so very sad that these people rarely get a mention. It was just awfull what they went through.
you mean like sticking his blank in his blank?
Degenerates
Yes them and the black and gypsy victims
Also Jehovahs witnesses were killed in these concentration camps. Hitler was evil in the flesh.
@@mikejones9961 what???
Learning of the Holocaust in school, one teacher once said that Gypsies, Homosexuals, Elderly, Babies, Disabled, and other races were also killed. It always irritated me that we never heard about that again or that it's not mentioned like the Jews that were killed. It's hard to find any information on this small percentage of victims. Thank you for this information, so I can learn more.
And dont forget the Jehovahs Witnesses. They were the ONLY group that could leave the camps at any time, simply by signing a document renouncing their faith and pledging loyalty to the. Nazi regime. Very few ever did. Thousands were imprisoned, tortured and murdered. Jehovahs Witnesses And The Holocaust (google) is an eye-opener.
Same. That’s why I never liked history class. Because they would not talk about this
Also people of colour
I graduated high school in 82 and all of this was taught to us. The only thing that wasn’t was Hitler was Jewish and had physical problems with his penis.
@@lydiamichaels1976 niggas in Auschwitz
My music teacher at University was originally from Austria. He was not only gay but also Jewish. His family was able to leave Vienna in the mid 1930's and come to the US. By leaving he was able to go on receive an education and have a successful career as a teacher and Music Critic with the Los Angeles Times Newspaper. I learned a lot from him and I am proud to have been his student. Thank You WA👍👍🙏❤️
PS I have a beautiful PS to this posting. WA is still alive! I looked him up on my alumni site and they had an article about him. He turned 102 yrs old this year on July 31 2022! He is completely blind now which is sad because he wrote music etc but it is absolutely amazing that he is still with us!
Beautiful ♥️
Thank goodness he got out of there...
What an amazing story and touching homage. ❤ from over the pond 🇬🇧
We also need to know about such prominent people who were either Nazi sympathizers or did business with them.
In England Oswald Mosely and his family and the Duke of Windsor and his wife Wallis Simpson were great admirers of Hitler and Nazi Germany.
In the United States we had Charles Lindbergh;Joe Kennedy;William Randolph Hearst;Walt Disney;Henry Ford and Prescott Bush among others were either Nazi Sympathizers;Admirers of Hitler;Did Business With Them or had Anti Semitic leanings.
Wow!
That last quote though!!!
"We must never forget these men, who either died or survived, and remained marked until the end of their lives. Their stories and suffering must forever remind us the dangers of discrimination and racism and hatred towards each other, as history often repeats itself"
"Marked"? It was the result of their OWN choices.
@@powrguy1696When did you choose to be born heterosexual?
@@powrguy1696 love that you can't even agree with such a simple statement. Like "ooh maybe we shouldn't kill and discriminate" and the only point you have to make is "oooh but they chose to be gay!!!!"
@@kayden3844 Yep; the only salient point in the sex deviate argument that means ANYTHING, is the FACT that a foolish lifestyle CHOICE deserves the consequences the chooser receives from a NORMAL society, with biblical morals....PERIOD. Word-smithing doesn't change FACT....even if deviant "experts" try to justify their proclivity.
@@powrguy1696All Jews were marked, not just the gay ones…
‘Tell the people that homosexuals can be brave’ 🥹
Such a horrific time in history, but Willem Arondeus was a true hero.
I just wish that more people knew his name and story. He should have a place amongst the hero’s of queer history. I know that many people would be inspired by his story just as I am.
Homosexuals are weak
No they weren't
@@rehanakhtar6801 You’re acting as though I care about your opinion 😅
Willem Arondeus and Frieda Belinfante - two names we are very proud of over here in The Netherlands ❤
Nazism = Christianity
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In 1952, Alan Turing the mathematician was arrested for homosexuality - which was then illegal in Britain. He was found guilty of ‘gross indecency’ (this conviction was overturned in 2013) but avoided a prison sentence by accepting chemical castration. In 1954, he was found dead from cyanide poisoning. An inquest ruled that it was suicide.
Turing is one of my favorite figures of the war. He was a genius instrumental in winning the war, yet was ultimately betrayed by his own nation. He cracked the Nazi enigma code, which helped to defeat the Nazi's and liberate Europe...and his nation in return chose to destroy his life because he had attraction to men instead of women. Think about how messed up that is.
His death is one of the strangest cases of the 1900s. Many new theories suggest that he died as a result of accidentally ingesting cyanide (if it really was cyanide). Essentially, there were no indicators of suicidal thoughts, he was completely dedicated to his work (which was going better than ever) and he had made plans with himself for the next Tuesday. All of his friends and family also said that he really didn't seem like the sort, which is what a lot of people say, however, this was a man so eager to get back to his work, that he voluntarily undertook chemical castration to obtain an early release; a man who goes through something like that voluntarily clearly has a lot to live for. **Even though I refer to the castration as "voluntary" I should mention that there was coercion and the promise of an early release which pressured many men to undergo the procedure**
@@badateverything5392 Citation needed on "many new theories" theories please.
But execution, incarceration and torture were the order of the day at that time, simply because some part of the population had ambiguous sexual preferences?
I'm open to new information on Turing, though, and I'm sure he was a dedicated mathematician, as was Hypatia.
Thank you for your informative comment in regards to Turing. His genius cracking the Enigma code saved millions more lives I would assume. Who cares what his sexual preference was! I don't understand why people care or are offended by what happens inside somebody else's bedroom. Society owes Turing a great debt of gratitude and RESPECT!
@@Jiji-the-cat5425 You are so correct! A stain on the history of the UK at must never be forgotten.
Thanks for the video. We always hear about the Jewish persecution and death in concentration camps, but not enough of the other groups that also suffered and died. Its important to remember everyone that was lost. RIP to all lost and may they be in heaven.
3rd world war closer than it ever will be shows that 2 weren't enough. Do you feel like humanity deserves another chance? Choose your answer wisely because you never know who you're speaking to.
Yes more than Jews were victims of the Nazis.
They will not all be. There is only one way into Heaven and Jesus is that way.
@@georgerivera9220 it’s laughable that you think so. God loves ALL his children. He’s not selective like yourself
@@cheekytyke God loves us all yes, that's why He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die on the Cross and rise again so that people can turn from their sinful ways and turn to Christ. So yes while God does love us, yes He is selective of who goes to be with Him in eternity, read the Bible it explains it all
We can learn from this but instead we continue to hate people. The world is sick.
Rest In Peace to all who lost their lives 🕊🕊🕊 I will never understand how humans can inflict so much pain to one another 💔
you mean like sticking his blank in his blank?
@@mikejones9961so sticking his blank in her blank is ok?
@@mikejones9961that's pleasure not pain
@@sykomansam8476 i wouldn't know but you sound like a man of experience, pervert
I wanted my dream that I sacrificed everything for huge dream beautiful and now i super confused but if ah well there's not another soul like mine our worth losing destiny for but keep her waiting so wrong she will be so upset all this waiting remember she dosent stand for any type of abuse especially what anyone would do to be in ur shoes 😢😮
I really struggle to understand such cruelty to others. I read, I watch documentary after documentary and I still do not understand what goes through someone's mind that they are so cruel to others for no reason whatsoever.
it's not too difficult to understand -society that permits certain behaviors begins to shift the overton window, meaning that these behaviors which were once fringe and unknown become permissive and eventually celebrated. it becomes the new baseline in which people view their society, at which point a new, even more fringe belief can now be pushed for acceptance, which once again, if allowed to happen, would re-set the baseline of society's general beliefs, and it goes on and on this way until we live in a society where people openly debate whether pedophilia should be accepted or not. In order to not allow something like this, you have to push the overton window in the other direction. And you do that by criminalizing sexual deviance.
Right,
If men and women want to be gay let them,
Just don't socialize with them,
Leave them alone as long as they leave you alone..
You struggle to understand cruelty because you're a normal human with healthy mind, however, it isn't the case for psychopaths, narcissists and antisocial individuals, those people seek pleasure in cruelty. Their minds are something else........
@its really complicated being nice to straight men nahh they were just getting rid of groomers
@nightwingdefeatingbadguys8076 hertrophobic comment 🤣
Imagine being in a concentration camp and being shat on, not just by the guards, but also by the other inmates, and you're liberated and still considered a criminal, just for being gay.
I don’t
To be fair, this law predated the Third Reich. In fact it was promulgated under Bismarck during the Second Reich.
@@jacksonreilly3441 Whoever promulgated it, it was wrong and discriminatory.
@@harrietharlow9929 In a more gracious time than the decadent age in which we currently live, most civilized countries enacted laws condemning immorality and sexual degeneracy. The pity is that these laws have largely been abandoned. I would refer you to Proverbs 14:34. "Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people".
@@jacksonreilly3441 That's your view and you're welcome to it. I accept the reality that part of the population is attracted to their own sex and that they should be left alone.
"W based nazi"
-timmy born in 2015
Why so real?
What is your age??
I don’t see how it has anything to do with age, could you elaborate please?
W
One of my uncles was a British soldier during WW2 and part of the unit that liberated Belsen.
He would never speak about the horrors he witnessed there.
So was a colleague of mine when teaching at the same school in the UK. Said he'd been there; and that was all.
The Brits were just like the Nazis regarding homesexuals.
when i was young and stupid i pushed a mate who had been a photographer in nam to tell me the worst thing he had seen, i wish i hadn't... now i think 'how disrespectful of my younger self' and 'poor guy'
Nazism = Christianity
Thanks so much for this video. Too many people don't know anything about this. My German instructor in Graduate School said that many men were taken straight from the concentration camp to the prison.
Thank you for watching
There has been an effort to hide this information in the past. Tell it from the rooftops!
Reincarserated and released quietly in 1955z
yeah now we know what happened to Pederasts during Nazi's
@@lucaazeri1700 Luca, can you spell bigot? A person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group. Most child rapist are heterosexual. That is a fact. Kiss my A..!
Thank you for telling their story. So much hatred and death. So sad that it continues today.
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@@lisamannmann5559
Is that funny to you?
@@lisamannmann5559 bro you 9 calm down
Yes, middle eastern countries practice this brutality every day. 🙁
I don't think gay men are still being sent to concentration camps
This was an excellent edition of your programing. It was extremely personal. Thank you for showin part of my History with such intimate detail.
This hurts so badly to watch. I feel like these men were my brothers
I'll never understand the blind rage and hatred people have for those who are different
Why is it human nature to fear and hate anything we don't understand?
@Springfeel_ what you said is only true to some extent. You are still showing the stigma that a lot of gay people have had to deal with for thousands of years.
@@user-rw4xi8sm8h -yeah well there are many reasons for it that will never change or go away.
@@Springfeel_ Nice, justifying the actions of literal Nazis because the gays make you uncomfortable
The only men I've ever met who have such a burning hatred of homosexuals are ALWAYS the same men who get caught in gay sex scandals themselves
@@Springfeel_ Thankfully your second comment is just as untrue as your first, your beliefs are dying. LGBTQ people are experiencing a Renaissance across the world because people are beginning to understand that gay people are just like straight people.
When you stop "othering" people, and really try to understand that those people you hate live lives almost identical to yours in every way except for the gender of the person they sleep next to, you'll stop accepting and regurgitating these stereotypes and lies that give you just cause to hate the LGBTQ community.
@@mannygutierrez7654 -wrong. And you're gay 😂
The single-most educating and heartwarming thing about this video is reading the comments section. I was fully expecting nasty comments from all manner of nasty humans. But to read how much support and sorrow there is in these times for homosexual men is overwhelming. I had to stop reading them when I reached the verge of tears.
Of course, I feel sorrow. These are humans too regardless of their sexuality.
This comment section is thankfully wholesome. Although unfortunately there's plenty of comment sections which are not wholesome...
@Detroit to KC I thought it was given that everyone knew the youtube comment sections are filled with comments from incels.
I don’t wanna be cynical but I do think comment sections in such videos are highly monitored to not include hate speech ex. by automatically banning comments with slurs. I think otherwise a lot more hateful comments would exist here.
edit: Well here we have some evidence, I get a notification about some nazi apologist who wrote a response comment to me but it isn't visible to me in the comment section. Looks like it was deleted. Good job history cuz honestly he was spewing all kinds of bs.
Thanks you!!!! I'm so happy your comment was the first I saw! I was incredibly reluctant to read the comments, something I really enjoy doing after a great video. This time I thought as you, I believe? Meaning most comments would be troll like vile nonsense with the only intension to harm. A few negative posts certainly doesn't both me, and I hope most over look?!?!. But after reading you're comment first I was able to push my own judgements aside and read some beautiful and like-minded posts. To be honest I'm upset that I believed most would be negative. I guess we're all far from the people we want to be!
My adoptive great grandfather on my mother's side had a sexual relationship with another man while in Germany. That man was my biological great grandfather. Both men were married and each had a child. All six managed to get out of Germany and make it to America before things got as bad as they did. They weren't all able to afford to make the trip together. My biological great grandparents and maternal grandmother went first. Later my adoptive great grandparents and their son were able to make it here. By the time they did both of my biological great grandparents had passed away and my grandmother had been sent to live in an orphanage. Eventually they were able to find her and they adopted her. Growing up it was the kind of thing people didn't like to speak about, didn't discuss much. Even now, not that far away from 60 I'm learning, there's still so much I don't know. I appreciate you sharing this.
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@@Petreski447wow so cool.
We may not be using these inhumane practices anymore, but we are still discriminating against a small, innocent community that only wants to live. Look at the anti-homosexual law Uganda has. They can give you the death penalty just for being gay or lesbian. History repeats itself in some way, shape, or form.
Crazy how they were at war with nearly the entire world but still devoted so many resources to the purging of there own people
Sad that this is still happening all over the Middle East today . 😢
True. And if it isn't Gretta Thunberg, it's the rising LGBTQ party.
To deb deb .They think being gay is evil but torturing and murdering them isnt. What twisted monsters !!!
The middle east doesn't look at homosexuality. In the middle east, they view woman as breading purposes and intercourse with men is for pleasure
@@derbdep oh I know very well believe me.
That's not going to change any day soon
As an American in a military family, I saw the photos and heard the stories of the camps from my father, a combat commander who'd been promoted to Operations Officer of the 1st Infantry Division, 2 surviving brothers in the 1st ID and 82nd Airborne Division, and numerous first cousins who served in other units which liberated camps, including one who was an officer in the 6th US Armored Division, which liberated the massive camp of Buchenwald.
I've heard the experiences. I verified them while doing my doctoral work.
These veterans, all tough men all, hardened veterans and intelligent, educated Men, were haunted by what they'd seen in the Camps until they died many years later.
Its war, everyone starved. Germans starved themselves. Those prisoners had ok conditions dont make up lies you commie
What did they see?
they were told to lie alot of vets told the truth even patton warned us we fought the wrong enemy and he was murdered pictures with out truth , very useful
When the Americans “liberated” the concentration camps, homosexuals were not allowed to leave. Gay men were kept in the camps by the homophobic Americans and British governments.
@@PUGSLIFE Death. Starvation. Disease. Watching hundreds more die who were beyond medical treatment. And much more.
Very sad how hateful people can be no matter their sex, creed, religion, color we're all human 😢😢😢😢😢
Thanks for making this video. Hopefully one day this kinda stuff will end
For many years gay men and women married the opposite sex to have a cover. Some mates knew, some did not. Many lived a double life. Others lived with their mate, had children and no one knew but them. It meant their lives.
My great grandmother and great grandfather father were these people . They even had my grandfather , as to hide it and said they didn’t have kids more kids because she couldn’t .
Many still do
Believe it or not it still goes on till this day. This is the year 2000. And more I am a very straight Christian person believe in the God Almighty. But I do know that God loves everybody and this breaks my heart on what these people went through and still do go through because of the lack of love and compassion in one another. No one has the right to judge one another. No One has the right to rule over another person. Only our Lord and Savior who created all is the ruler. We are the answer to him and him only. There is no man on earth should be the ruler ruler over anyone. Or take the life like these Nazis did. It breaks my heart. What right does one man have to take the lives ofSo many people.
Back in the so called 'Golden Age"
of Hollywood,there were quite a number of "Lavender Marriages".
Most notably Rock Hudson and Phyllis Thaxter.
Some historians believe that 'Tailgunner' Joe Mc Carthy was both a closeted guy man that the USSR had the goods on so he got married in a "Lavender Marriage"
as well as a Russian Spy.
@@teenasnyder4888 fairy tales 🧚♀️ ✨️
Among the Ancient Greeks and Romans, sexual relations between soldiers wasn't much of a problem at all. Some think Hitler was a closeted homosexual.
Different times Different beliefs
@its really complicated being nice to straight men ancient greeks and ancient romans dont exist anymore luckily, depraved people many of them
hitler was not gay, he was in love with eva braun
@its really complicated being nice to straight men my God, how can someone be so wrong ?? evilness has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Straight men can be good or bad and the same with gay men. Even in this video you can see how evil was the homosexual Ernst Rohm
@its really complicated being nice to straight men 90% of men around the world are straight, so of course there are more straight who are bad. Simple math
History often repeats itself. Look at what Ron DeSantis is doing in Florida.
Yeah he said pedos will get a death sentence are you arguing against that?
@@Rabbi_Dollarstein I'm sure someone with your username is always commenting in good faith 😂
@@Rabbi_Dollarstein yes.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it🙏🇦🇺
I’d fly that flag a little lower; we were responsible for a lot of internment camps.
Thanks so much for this informative and interesting video. I had known that the Nazis had persecuted homosexuals, but had known very little about the extent of their crimes against them. It is important to watch and stay informed about that history so that we can do all in our power not to allow anything like it to happen again. People tend to forget. We simply cannot.
Homosexual men....they didnt persecute lesbians...it always amazes me why so many societies just want to persecute homosexual men but have no issue with women. Maybe it has something to do with them being looked as a threat to the 'family man' being the hard working breadwinner image'
Me too! My Dad told me tons of stuff but not to this extent. My God! 😮❤
@@vivinamorrisonyes I agree with you, we must never forget so it can never be repeated!! How humans can be so cruel is beyond me! It's revolting what went on!! We Must teach our children about the horrors of WW2 😢
It is still happening. Just look at concentration camps of animal farms and you'll see similarities of how man treat those who are defenceless, voiceless and vulnerable to abuse.
@@lauratanlnik your ass did not just compare the holocaust to animal farms
I am British & feel deeply sorry how my country treated Alan Turing, a man who helped shorten the war many say by as much as 1 year, he cracked the Enigma code with his brilliance, and he was chemically castrated for being homosexual which ultimately led to depression & his suicide, is sp very sad - yes a different era and different laws at that time so cant always judge by modern rules historical injustices but this case was really sad for a man who had done so much for his country.
The average voter doesn’t write the laws. You have nothing to be ashamed of.
An absolute hero of mine , I have sat on his bench in Manchester, love is all there ,is no justification for his awful treatment
Wasn’t Hitler himself a homosexual or bisexual? Everything Hitler did was pure EVIL & a sociopath
The british didnt killed only Turing. At the end of the war, they murdered hundreds of thousands of german soldiers prisoners of war, in open camps in rain and snow, by hunger, refusing them any food medical care etc. The rude super colonialist unhuman manners. But no talk about such.
Ur country people have done many wrong things to others, being an Indian it still hurts
I am a 3rd generation World war 2 German-Jew refugee descent to the Philippines, and a memember of the LGBTQ community as well, after learning all of these , crush my heart!
Thank you for this information. 😢😢 🙏
We should also never forget Alan Turing. His story serves to remind us that there are "nazis" everywhere.
I grew up in a neighborhood in northeast Ohio, where most of the families had at least one parent from Europe, my Mother was from Poland. I remember as a kid my Mom's Polish friends coming over and seeing the tattoos on their arms. My best friend's Father was a prisoner in Dachau and when I turned 16 he sat me and his son down and shared his experience with us. That is the only time he ever spoke of it. I worked in a steel mill with many Displaced Persons from all over Europe. German Concentration Camp survivors and Russian Gulag survivors, I heard the stories from there lips. How, HOW could it have been!
Thanks for sharing man
To think that prejudices, even hate continues today. We are a slow learning species.
I cried. I cried and I cried and I cried. Oh, my God. May their memory be a blessing.
@@exileduniverse this is wrong. everyone is a child of God. no one deserves something like this. i hope you find peace and love in your heart to understand others. ❤
@@lanehaycraft10 your no better either
@@exileduniverse beware of those who come to you in sheep's clothing, but who inwardly are ravaging wolves ".
We all bleed the same color. No human is better or worse than any other human. When will the human race learn that?
Excuse me, all countries didn’t do this? Don’t tarnish the entire human race for the actions of one country
Thank you for this testimony , which was shocking - but needs to be remembered . I have no words ..........
Thank you for this video.
Thanks for watching
@@WorldHistoryVideos You're welcome.
This is absolutely horrifying, we need to make sure this NEVER happens again, I’m very scared the current political climate and recent rulings in the USA are headed to this path.
War is world population control.
This is sickening. I cannot imagine living that way.
I am glad that these stories are being told. It is terrifying to consider that this kind of history always has and always will repeat itself...it's already starting in some places that people would consider civilized and even free! Truly scary.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of this same sick hatred in these comments and replies
True 👍
@its really complicated being nice to straight men Sadly, I think I married the last good one. 😆 He's a saint and is somehow able to put up with my idiosyncratic nonsense.
read what the commies did to german women and children and the us and what they did to german prisoners. germans were good to jews tell they turned against them find the truth. jews started communism STUDY STUDY!!!!
@@georgerandall5686 😆 Sure dude, the Germans were so kind to the Jews. Jesus, just stop. Stalin wasn't Jewish. He murdered scores of Jewish people. Karl Marx, often called "the father of communism" was born to Jewish parents, but was actually a lapsed Christian. Even if the creator of communist ideology was Jewish, why does that translate, in your mind, to "Jews invented communism"? To blame an entire ethnic or religious group for a specific political ideology isn't merely ignorant, but regressive and divisive, but that's your intent, isn't it?
Thank you for your countless videos. Seems like no one was safe, no matter who you were.
Thank you
Yes, they even killed Furries! And Furry babies
Has live changed that much. Kids are still dying because there scared to come out. When my son told me I held him told him I loved him and would protect him. He repayed the favour when I came out. ❤❤❤❤
What evil, evil, people who would inflict such pain on another human being is unreal. Please let there be hell.
You think it's normal for a man to have sex with another man? You are the one that's evil
@@user-lg7bs2ws4y yeah it’s okay if both consent to it
My siblings and I were raised on the belief that what a person is or isn't, is none of our concern unless that person is a troublemaker. If so, just stay away from that person. Seems to me to be far less work than making laws and what not
They are poisoning society so we must do something against these subhumans
They are trouble makers
@@soundofperserverance3363 GAY PEOPLE ARE THE MOST ACCEPTING IN THE WORLD, MUSLIMS ARE TROUBLEMAKERS BUT YOU SEEMS TO REALLY NOT BEING ABLE TO SAY SOMETHING AGAISNT THEM
Imagine go to prison for being gay, then was allowed to be a girlfriend of a guard. And the guard got away with what got one convicted.
Thank you SO much for this immensely important memorial!
God bless these men for their strength and bravery, rest the souls of the victims and let the world know their stories.
I love gay men and proud to share this history.
Hell na lgbtq is haram
@@Mr.Nature819don’t you have somewhere else to be stupid? Isn’t being a id*ot harem, if not it def should be
@@Mr.Nature819 And Israel is superior
An important reminder of the depth and scope of Nazi hatred and crimes.
Thank you
Even in the UK gays were persecuted and held in prison for many years. I would say that most of Europe were the same way.
May their memory be a blessing.
The fact that being gay used to be illegal and is still illegal in some countries is insane. That's like making it illegal to be short. It's how you are naturally and nothing you do can change it.
Homosexuality must be illegal in all over the world
I think your example is ridiculous
Women ☕️
It's a choice, not genetic.
@Dez nuts on your chin being ugly should be illegal
It’s horrific to watch the persecution torture and killing of any humans. God loves us all and will have his day
oh god i can smell youtube shorts kids
Finally someone noticed
2022 : I was in a cinema film by an Italian director who made a film in the ruins right after the war. With actors who had experienced directly the war.
After the screening, there was a discussion with all the people present. I spoke with an old german woman about that time. It turned out that she was an architect and helped to rebuild everything after that war. One of the most impressive statements I ever heard was: *the people inside were more broken than the buildings. Movietitle: Germania Anno Zero (1948)*
I honestly don’t understand why so many people feel the need to persecute and destroy people who aren’t causing any harm to anyone, just because they have different beliefs or lifestyles. I’ve always had the mantra of live and let live🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️❤️❤️
I agree! And, ironically it is now the LGBTQ party that is turning our country-men in as "domestic terrorists." We are now blacklisted. Even I, who am gay. It seems my homosexuality TRUMPs my Catholicism. Almost all of my close gay friends from college have shunned me, even though I am defending THEIR OWN free speech. Hail Hydra Vulgaris, a sadistic geneticist once said . . .
@@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole ❤️❤️🤗🤗
Not strictly true Covid 19 some countries it was mandatory for the vaccination and many were "reported to the authorities" many in my neighbourhood were "reported for not following quarantine" BUT you will probably defend that reporting action and if you do then you are the same mentality who can't mind their own business,As long as it does not affect you keep your nose out,There are exceptions,child abuse,wife beaters,Drug dealers,
It's the Nazi regime. You didn't have to be different, they tortured and slaughtered everyone.
I may not understand what it's like to be gay because, well, I'm not gay. That said, I can't allow myself to judge or hate someone due to their differences from myself in any area of life..but, I do hope that I can always find ways to love my fellow man because of our shared humanity.
Thank you for making us aware of the danger of intolerance and hatred of homosexuals through this video. I did not realize the magnitude of hatred the Nazis had toward homosexual men until now. I wonder how the Nazis also felt toward lesbian women, too.
Hi George. Thanks for watching our videos
They did and they did the exact same to them as the men.
@@jeffreyval9665
Don't forget disabled people like myself 😕
There were no laws on the book against lesbians Nazi Germany.
Reasons are believed to be because they did not recognize the existence of lesbianism
@@jeffreyval9665 indeed it has always been taught. German monarchies ended up in camps too
I had a conversation with a friend a few months ago and I mentioned this very topic and she straight up didn’t believe me.
Thank you for this video. I did learn about some of this in middle school a long time ago. Unfortunately history is already starting to repeat itself, look closely at Florida.
Thank you so much for this video, its a topic that is often overlooked when people talk about the holocaust.
Failing to capitalize the ubiquitous "H" word has been designated a hate crime.
@@jacksonreilly3441 Hate crimes are abusive, violent and discriminatory judgemental acts commited on people for reasos of hate and prejudice. I am sure you have thought about comitting a few hate crimes yourself with your nasty, disgusting, hateful, small minded , embarassing views on the gay community who get more amazing everyday. You are part of the hate crime problem and I just can't think of you without imagining you wearing a Nazi uniform.
@@jacksonreilly3441 I need your Address. I want to ship to you a special holiday gift in the mail. It's a copy of "MEIN KAMPF."
@@kristopherwilhite hmmmm
@@jacksonreilly3441 seriously? Can you show me a source? I'm not trolling you, I just haven't heard that before. Thanks.
Gripping documentary!👏👏👏👏 , unfortunately our fight continues.
If only the world could get rid of homophobia, antisemitism, racism, and misogyny.. that would be wonderful
What many even in Germany are not aware of: Paragraph 175 of the criminal code remained in effect basically unchanged after WWII, until 1964. After that, homosexual relationships were not illegal anymore, provided that both men were 21 years old. However: The age of consent for heterosexual relationships was 14. Therefore, even after 1964, there were men convicted based on paragraph 175. The last "175er" to have been convicted under this law was released from prison in 2004 after serving a 10 year sentence.
till 1969!! in western germany and1968 in the east!
@@olavwilhelm6843 I stand corrected - you are right. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the old law remained in effect unchanged until first being reformed in 1969.
My information on the situation in the GDR is spotty though. I have read that before 1968 the law was technically still on the books, but not enforced anymore. This practice was then signed into law.
I wonder when UA-cam will give equal time to the Middle East and Arab countries' treatment of gays? Surely they can pull together a documentary exposing Muslim treatment of homosexuality rather than always blaming the Germans for these historic atrocities. Perhaps it would be educational to hear about current attitudes in the Muslim community
Yes indeed.
I am not entirely sure you know how youtube works. You could make that video. And it will be shown and viewed.
Nothing is so poisonous as religion, true!
That would really be gay!!
We live in a world where any criticism of POC is viewed as racist. The accepted liberal viewpoint: “If evil white men aren’t directly responsible, they are indirectly responsible.”
There are so many ties I see between ww2 Germany to the laws republicans are passing or are attempting to pass now. What is that saying about knowing history or being doomed to repeat it?
The human race can be so cruel and evil
"Tell the people, gays can be brave too". Nah my friend you went out a straight up G.
What ???
What are you talking about??? 🤷♂️
@NotaFascistSlaveXXV1 I forgot you said east coast and so I deleted my response to you as I thought you were being facetious, but you're not?
Why would the whole world know of some colloquial American area term? Your country's not the whole world you know? Only a small percentage of the world's population and not 1/2 of the English speaking world.
Get a plane ticket before the world's cooked from too much co2?
unimaginable how excessivly cruel humans can be towards each other.I found this so harrowing I nearly pressed stop.
These atrocities happened to Everybody in those camps, not just gays. The narrator has put a spin on this info and is trying to manipulate people to fit his own agenda. All of those people were terribly abused and murderrred.
@@taffykins2745 right but THIS video is about the homosexual people in the camps who were horribly, horribly treated and killed.
There are countless videos speaking on the atrocities that happened to Jewish folks, but this video is recognizing the hardship of gay men and women
@@jmack129 yes, you are right. And it was TERRIBLE!!!! I feel for all of those poor people and hope it never ever happens again! Just a terrible, terrible thing. 😞😭
One explanation for the cruelty is that the animal species Homo Sapiens only differ one chromosome from our closest relatives in the animal kingdom - the chimpanzees. With some it really shows.
History will repeat itself..😊
It's good that there is videos about other aspects of the Holocaust as well. it's important all facests are known!
Alan Turing was chemically castrated for being gay,.....the guy that saved Britain and built the worlds first computer was rewarded with that...... So you're right,we did no better,
What they had to go through it's so heartbreaking
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@lisamannmann5559 Naww aren't you special? Grab a juicebox :)
@kimchiraven LOL! Also, the fools responding here have no idea what kind of Holocaust geneticists have planned for us in the VERY near future. Reject the social media propaganda and ideology of identity-politics. Dissenters are ALREADY being blacklisted as "domestic terrorists."
they deserved it
I would have punished them 10x times than hitler
And history, is alas, repeating itself.
Seeing this only strengthens my convictions about the current state of America. How can people see this, but not see how, in the year 2023, it's happening all over again, only this time it's with Trans people. Growing up and learning about WW2, I never would have believed that within my lifetime, I would personally know the fear that many of these men felt during the start of it all.
HAHAHA DID YOU SERIOUSLY COMPARE NAZIS HUNTING DOWN AND KILLING JEWS TO PRESENT DAY AMERICA LMAOOO AINT NO WAY 😭 😭
Lifestyle choices are not society's problem; it's a mental health problem, no matter what like-minded "expert" wants to name it/rationalize it/and try to promote it......let nature sort out the misfits, as she always does.
It remains very difficult to “Like” these videos depicting such depraved inhuman behaviour. However, I do so with a profound sense of honour and gratitude to all those who suffered and in hope that my one thumbs up 👍🏻 might bring this video and others like it further into the algorithms and perhaps reach and change one broken heart into a heart of thoughtful human love.
"thoughtful human love" ohhhh how nice. The only problem is that "thoughtful human love" doesn't exist.
You could see it this way: you give a thumbs up for the quality of the video and the effort by its creators.
@Manny Baquero neither does gay 'love'.
Let's say potentially, if you wish, a like could be like liking the fact that awareness if being brought so that it would not be forgotten and people would make better choices.
Good thinking. More people need to see this!
Rest in peace to all those men. I hope that all of us never forget them. ♥️💐
The Bible says man should not lay man….woman should not lay with woman…God made man and woman to have kids
@@evamaggard they are still humans with their own stories
@@evamaggard the bible never even says that, you brainwashed robot...
@@evamaggard the Bible says a lot of crazy s***
@@evamaggard BULLSHIT !!!
So what would happen to the gaurds that would SA the prisoners? What happenes to them? Punishing them for being homosexual but engaging in homosexual acts as well? Make it make sense.
They could use the excuse that they were trying to humiliate the victims or “rape the gay out of them”
Uh I don’t know how to word this, but it was common amongst guards and even the camp commander. (I think that’s the name)
One male prisoner was being hit by the guards while a commander watched and uh pleasured himself right there
Other times the prisoners would willingly offer sexual acts mostly oral in exchange for extra food and whatnot. They would even have a higher chance of survival including those that are SA. Sometimes camp commanders and only them was allowed to pick a prisoner to ‘claim’ them as like their own personal slave for all sorts of things .
Edit: can’t forget many were from Sturmabteilung too, so it’s not much surprised and SA is used as some power thing
@@Vendetta_s None of this ever happened, stop pulling stuff out of ur ass
What is scary that this can happen again if power is kept unchecked. It's happening around the world already.
Nobody should go through this regardless of who you love. Pure evil.
Leviticus 18 and leviticus 22. What are you talking about?
@@trumenfreight6055 death to christianity 😁
@@italianbaxter8386 why?
@@trumenfreight6055 christianity has been responsible for most genocides and acts of violence since its founding, it doesn't and shouldn't have the kind of authority it has
@@trumenfreight6055 christianity has been responsible for most genocides and acts of violence since its founding, it doesn't and shouldn't have the kind of authority it has
Allen Turin’s intelligence, knowledge,and determination… how much more technologically advanced would we be today if stupid, senseless, bigoted sensibilities hadn’t destroyed him. Genius is genius in every color, orientation, or gender. We need to nurture that knowledge for the future of the next generation. Cheers!
Hello Anna, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
Shroud of Turing. Joking but he was kinda saintly in a way.
Not an ad in sight thank you :)
This is what authoritarianism looks like: othering people and constraining their rights. This is happening today.
This makes me angry inside to see how gay men were absolutely treated as criminals after the war! They we're not allowed any restitution of the ones that survived until later. Trust me what they gave was never enough.
If you are angry, go and throw a tantrum. Paragraph 175 was still the law and they broke it.
@@vanzylkevin6308 Callous or not, it was the truth. Until the late 20th century, most civilized nations enacted
anti-sodomy laws for the protection of decent society.
@@vanzylkevin6308 Doubtless. My standards of decency and morality are based on traditional Christian family values which do not encompass tolerance of sodomy.
@@jacksonreilly3441 Tbh I wouldn't call you decent and moral if you are seeking to demean sexual minority. Paragraph 175 is annulled, and no way we are bound to annulled law (similar to how Jesus fulfilled the law, but here is the difference: We can follow OT laws but failing to follow them wouldn't be a sin and therefore not with death penalty). Be humble and don't be haughty. I do believe gays are indeed born this way for a reason, not for condemnation but acceptance and love. God bless.
@@gngsld3106 Since your reply was reasonably civil, I shall endeavour to reciprocate in similar fashion.
Although I am no theologian, I can see that the Bible makes perfectly clear God's stand on the issue
of sodomy in both Testaments. From Leviticus throuh Romans and the Pauline Epistles, there is no
room for debate. Jesus was clear as crystal when he said a man should leave his father and mother
and cleave unto his wife. (a woman). The Lord did not say he should cleave unto his male lover!
The only way to show love to homosexuals is to present them with the Gospel of free and sovereign Grace,
not to affirm them in their sin. If they accept the Gospel, they will be saved. If they reject it, they should be
shunned.
Not being a scientist or medical professional, I don't know whether or not people are "born that way" but I
do know that science has been unable to locate any gene which indicates a prediliction towards such perverted sexual desires. Also, I do know that sodomy is an abomination in the sight of God. You may accept
such behaviour but He does not.
Lastly, I do not believe my comments were "haughty". I am 78 and tend to write in a formal manner. The
true haughtiness is exhibited by the other side. They insist that we not only acknowledge but also
respect their degenerate lifestyle, their preposterous "pride" events and ridiculous 75 genders. To my mind,
that is the epitome of arrogance!
Thanks to all those who contributed historical accounts and data of the punishment, imprisonment , persecution and murder of gay men under Nazi rule. It is extremely important that this history not be forgotten, minimized or rewritten, especially in times where the threat of criminal actions seem to again be repeating. Persecution of any group of people on matters of race, creed or sexial identity must not be instituted again. Excelent yet heartbreaking documentary.
I had heard quiet stories of Hitler secretly liking men. He did not get married till Eva Braun in 1945. Germany had become such a militaristic society from World War I to 1945 that there were thousands of young German men to foreign forces in Germany that hundreds of young men in close military situations were bound to be sexually attracted to one another. There are thousands of proven stories after World War II of countless number of babies born all over Europe to women whose fathers ended up being German soldiers after the Nazis invaded their countries. Love conquers all. Also I read about stories of women in the U.S. and Canada trying to get into P.O.W. camps in the two countries trying to start relationships(sex?) with the soldiers because the camps were mostly filled with young good looking captured German prisoners of war.
Yes, in the US persecution against LGBT+ is on the rise, and so did white supremacists under Trump's rule. This must be stopped.
Yes.........records are made to be broken......hopefully, we will grow out of the rump-ranger obsessions of societal fools.....
Nazism = Christianity
I’ve been to Buchenwald before and it is just absolutely horrific to be in the same room where thousands of people were tortured and killed
Allegedly
@@xaIlGG allegedly what
Allegedly, this thing happened. Or did it? @@Le_Wild_Cohen
Very powerful and sad that this is largely forgotten
If the afd (a strong right wing political party with lots of intern nazi structures) wins the 2025 election, all this will repeat so no worries, they will make sure the rest of the world will be remembered of Germany history this time not Jews but Muslims and definetly all kinds of lgbt people.
Currently they have 20% of theoretical voters. If they can double this they are able to lead the country (just a reminder, since the covid pandemic they nearly doubled their voter count already which is extremely scary)
deserved
Thank you for reminding us how heartless people can be
Hello Margaret, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
History often repeats itself…
7:33 isn't that C&A brand shop? I haven't known it's that old 😮
I didn’t know gay men were arrested and murdered too until I visited Sachsenhausen early 2000’s
History lessons at school didn’t mention that.
Very good information. Sure wish peeps of today would listen
The Art World Back Then: Young Adolf, your art is trash
Adult Adolf: I'm going to ruin the art world's existence
God, this is just wrong to do to your fellow man.
if you see social media right now despite the publicity and pride, people are so very hateful towards LGBT community. I hope someday it will change for good
yeah :(
Nah.
Disgusting treatment of human beings
@NotaFascistSlaveXXV1 yeah, it’s appalling for republicans to send migrants to the gas chambers.
@NotaFascistSlaveXXV1 hahahaha… wishing you a great day with less hate in your heart, you’re no better than Trump with your insults.
First of all, Hitler's fancy and obsession of Aryan race itself is so misdirected because there is no such thing as Aryan race. It's a myth. Aryan is a term used to describe a noble warrior with all possible good qualities. It's not a noun. It's an adjective.
Yes, the concept was fundamentally flawed, although the etymology and use of the word is more complex than you’ve indicated.
Yeah, I had to rewind that a few times to see if I heard that right.
Uhh not really before Hitler got big he was deeply into this bizarre gypsy who described the different types of people almost like a horoscope or something anyways she described the Aryan race as one of her description of humans therefore Hitler fell for it and was brainwashed by a gypsy pretty much witchcraft...which are all satanic
Thank you! The Nazis stretched the truth on the Aryan race.
Historically, there were Aryans but they weren't the blond-haired, blue-eyed people Hitler tried to create.
@@anhedonianepiphany5588 pp
Please read The Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger. Brief but illuminatingly tragic.