The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps

"It has only been since the mid-1970s that any attention has been paid to the persecution and interment of gay men by the Nazis during the Third Reich. . . . Heinz Heger's first-person account, The Men with the Pink Triangle , was one of the first books on the topic and remains one of the most important."—Michael Bronksi, gay historian The first and still the best-known testimony by a gay survivor of the Nazi concentration camps translated into English, this harrowing autobiography opened new doors onto our understanding of homosexuality and the Holocaust when it was first published in 1980. Includes a new introduction and bibliography. Heinz Heger was the pen name of the late Josef Kohaut, an Austrian Holocaust survivor who died in 1994.