Talk:Pink triangle
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Between 10,000 and 600,000 gay men and women
This range is rather wide. Is there no reasonably accurate figure? -- Evercat
- Follow the link to Homosexuals in Nazi Germany for an explanation of this range. -- Kimiko 21:10 24 May 2003 (UTC)
- Hi! I'm from Germany, and even happen to be gay. But what's more, I can say I know the most important literature regarding the topic. The number is quite unrealistic. Such numbers stem from the early 80's, when there was no research that had been done on homosexual men. But the picture of historians has changed a lot since. We now know very much about the extent of persecution. The number of gay camp prisoners wearing the pink triangle ranges between 5,000 and 15,000 (at most). 100,000 men have been implicated in legal proceedings, about 50,000 were convicted to serve a sentence in jail. And about 5,000 to 15,000 have been dragged into the concentration camps by the Gestapo (see also Paragraph 175). I will also provide some links in the next days. By the way, only very, very few lesbians were sent to concentration camps because of their identity as lesbians, and none could be imprisoned, because lesbianism was not punishable as such. Only fornication between men was. -lysis 2:21 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The recent changes stem from me. The English Wikipedia doesn't recognise users form Wikipedia Germany. I hope there are no linguistic mistakes, 'cause I'm not a native speaker. -- Lysis 4:08 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)