Victims and Victimizers

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In "Victims and Victimizer: Gays and Lesbians in the Third Reich," Frank Sanello explores the life and times of gays and lesbians - both gay Nazis and gay victims of Nazism - in the Third Reich and the Weimar Republic that preceded it.

From the anything goes Roaring Twenties of trés gay Berlin, where a think tank devoted to the study of homosexuality stood across the street from Hitler's Chancellory, to the pink triangles of detention camps turned death factories in the 1940s, Sanello investigates a terrifying time in history to be gay and German.

Homosexuals thrived in pre-Nazi Germany and may have been more accepted than anywhere else in the world - until Hitler came to power in 1933.

After that, gays who couldn't or wouldn't flee Germany paid the ultimate penalty for remaining in a country whose regime hated them as much as the Jews.

An estimated 100,000 gay men were arrested, and 10 percent died in concentration camps. Their persecution didn't end with the war. After the liberation of the camps, gays weren't freed but transferred to traditional prisons. Germany didn't decriminalize homosexuality until 1994.

Historian and novelist Frank Sanello has written more than 30 works of fiction and nonfiction, including "The Opium Wars," "The Knights Templars," and "The Autobiography of Frau Adolf Hitler."