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"First they came for Socialists, and I did not
speak out - because I was not a Socialist. Then they
came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I
was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not
speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me -
and there was no one left to speak for me.
Rev Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
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“NAZI PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS, 1933-1945” is one of several traveling exhibitions offered by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. This exhibition examines the rationale, means and impact of the Nazi regime’s effort to rid Germany of male homosexuality. Following an overview of the emerging urban gay community in Germany in the 1910s to the early 1930s, the exhibition explores Nazi racial and social ideals that formed the basis for the attempt to eradicate male homosexuality. The core of the exhibition focuses on the police terror that led to the arrest of some 100,000 homosexual men, 50,000 of whom were convicted and imprisoned during the Nazi period. Also presented is the brutal and often fatal incarceration of an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 men in concentration camps. The exhibition concludes with the postwar aftermath and Germany’s memorials to the homosexual victims of Nazi persecution. The USHMM’s traveling exhibition, “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945,” premiered at the Museum in Washington, D.C. in 2003. Prior to opening September 14, 2005 in downtown Oklahoma City, the exhibition will have completed successful engagements in the following cities:
After the exhibition closes in Oklahoma City on Sunday, October 23, it is scheduled to continue touring to West Palm Beach, FL; Atlanta, GA; and Ithaca, NY.
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