Pink Triangle

This one of the other book I chose that was nonfiction trio I checked out. It is also under the category of gay studies I field that I not familiar with as well as history which I am familiar with especially in the early 20^th century. I was first interested in this book because I saw that the spine was light pink which isn’t a color you usually associate with a nonfiction book. After I read the back of the book I decided to check out it because it was about Nazi Germany a subject I am both familiar with and very interested in. I especially wanted to read it because it was focusing on a minority group that I little or no knowledge of what happened in the Holocaust.

When I started to read I thought the author, Richard Plant would automatically describe and report the events that happened in the Holocaust. But instead he first described the men that were influent in Hitler’ Cabinet that were involved in the Homosexual affairs of Germany and how they were connected in it. The first chapter describes Roehm the SA leader and a well-known homosexual. It started off with his rise to power and how deeply closely he was connected with Hitler to the point that he called him by his first name Adolf. But then it detailed of how he fell for power not because he was homosexual but that he was too ambitious of wanting his SA to replace the current then ends with him being betrayed by his friend Adolf by being kidnapped and killed by a SS guard for not killing himself. And why all of this so important because of this that happened specially the fall of Roehm this translated to homosexual in Germany that they weren’t safe anymore  if a powerful men like Roehm was taken down so mercilessly.

Then the book went into a longer passage that featured Himmler one of the most dangerous men in Hitler’s cabinet because he was the one who organized the Holocaust. The book went in a indebt study of why Himmler hated homosexuals well a few of the reasons was that he thought it was an illness, it decreased the amount of children being born and another “”explanation” was that he thought that homosexual were inferior is because they were no better than women making them unfit warriors. He was a very peculiar men that one with his Nazi idealism of superior Aryan race. What a twisted philosophy I just don’t understand people with such a superior complex over others but I suppose he was a little men who was tired of being left behind hah, pathetic and repulsive.

Finally the later chapter then described the treatment of gays in the camps. When I read it made me understand why there isn’t many written works of their treatment. Because they had a smaller number and as well a shorter lifespan of any of the groups and they received the most terrible beatings. They were also out casted, received worsen labor work and they were horribly experimented.

This book is so great because it goes into a subject not many are willing to into. It talks about many things that people mostly wish to forget for it horrors but the book goes on, the author goes and writes the side of the story not many are familiar with and urges us not to forget those who were discriminated for the way they are as like many who suffered from the death camps.