Mozje z roznatim trikotnikom : porocilo homoseksualca o svojem zapornistvu v koncentracijskih taboriscih (1939-1945)  The Men With the Pink Triangle: A Homosexual's Account of His Imprisonment in Concentration Camps (1939-1945) 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2618637B

  Author(s)

  Heger, Heinz

  City

  Ljubljana 

  Country

  Slovenia 

  Language

  Slovenian 

  ISBN

  9789616983693 

  Date of Publication

  2023 

  Publisher

  Zalozba ZRC, ZRC SAZU  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  130 

  Subject

  Biography / Memoirs

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Jewish Studies

  Subject

  LGBTQ+

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Heger, Heinz

  Publisher

  Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU  

• Description

  The Men With the Pink Triangle: A Homosexual's Account of His Imprisonment in Concentration Camps (1939-1945) Heinz Heger is the pseudonym of the Austrian writer Johann (Hans) Neumann (1914-1978). Neumann, who was homosexual, was a German soldier during World War II and active in the Dutch resistance against National Socialism from 1944. He wrote the book Men with a Pink Triangle based on shorthand notes of conversations he had with Viennese Josef Kohout (1915-1994) between 1965 and 1967. Kohout was sentenced to six months in prison in March 1939 as a homosexual and survived several years of internment as a forced laborer in several German concentration camps. He did not participate in the preparation of the text for publication, nor did he want his relatives to learn about his sexual orientation. Some of the personal information in the text differs from his actual biography. Neumann's literary account of Josef Kohout's experiences from 1939 to 1945 was published in 1972 by the Hamburg publishing house Merlin. It is the first large-scale testimonial text of a homosexual from the era of National Socialism that has reached the general public. The book, written from a first-person narrative perspective, significantly contributed to shedding light on the until then completely taboo topic of homosexual prisoners who had to wear pink triangles in German concentration camps and were exposed to special forms of torture.