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DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Geoffrey J. Giles\, Ph.D.\, Professor Emeritus (Univ
 ersity of Florida). Friday\, Oct. 5th at 3pm in CU 301.\n\nThere are many 
 examples of Jews being accused of all sorts of crimes by the Nazis during 
 the Third Reich\, but no attention has been given to those Jews brought be
 fore the courts on charges under §175 of the criminal code\, relating to 
 homosexual offenses. This presentation looks particularly at such men arre
 sted during the Second World War. Given the rapid introduction of harsh\, 
 restrictive and punitive measures against the Jewish population of Germany
  in general\, and Himmler’s escalating witch-hunt against suspected homo
 sexuals after 1936\, one would expect summary justice in such cases. One m
 ight even surmise that Jews charged with homosexual offenses would be sent
  straight to Dachau\, without bothering the justice system. The scenario o
 f the cases Berlin was rather more complex. In fact\, the state prosecutor
  and the courts often spent a considerable amount of time\, assessing indi
 viduals\, and not always agreeing with the characterization or the ‘fact
 s’ presented by the Gestapo. The prison sentences handed down were not a
 lways lengthy. After serving out the sentence\, some were immediately seiz
 ed by the police and transferred to a concentration camp\, outside the jud
 icial system\; but a few were actually set free. This presentation will ex
 amine why such a surprising turn of events occurred in this and other case
 s.  Most of these men were eventually deported to a death camp a couple of
  years later\, but simply because they were Jews\, and with no reference t
 o their criminal record. The evidence revealed in these cases sheds new li
 ght on the interaction of Party and government agencies in the Third Reich
 \, as well as the surprising differentiation of various degrees of sexual 
 offenses. Even for Jews\, it seemed important to the authorities to establ
 ish whether they were genuinely homosexual or not.
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LOCATION:Culture and Society\, CU 301
SUMMARY:Double Danger? Homosexual Jews in the Clutches of the Nazi Police
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