From ‘The Pink Triangle’ by Richard Plant: “Perhaps the Nazi Party’s most explicit statement on homosexuality is the one it published on May 14, 1928, in response to a query about its stance toward reform of Paragraph 175. It is worth quoting in full:
It is not necessary that you and I live, but it is necessary that the German people live. And it can only live if it can fight, for life means fighting. And it can only fight if it maintains its masculinity. It can only maintain its masculinity if it exercises discipline, especially in matters of love. Free love and deviance are undisciplined, therefore, we reject you, as we reject anything that hurts our nation.
Anyone who thinks of homosexual love is our enemy. We reject anything which emasculates our people and makes it a plaything for our enemies, for we know that life is a fight, and it is madness to think that men will ever embrace fraternally. Natural history teaches us the opposite. Might makes right. The strong will always win over the weak. Let us see to it that we once again become the strong! But this we can achieve only in one way – the German people must once again learn how to exercise discipline. We therefore reject any form of lewdness, especially homosexuality, because it robs us of our last chance to free our people from the bondage which now enslaves us.â€
On this bed all the pleasures of the world in a single strand of silk!
All the tease, all the want, all the carnal desire running through the thinnest silken cord, wound round and round, tighter and tighter…
All your fantasies laid bare but for a bit of lace…
Rip it off.
Rip it all off.
Like a second skin, scant shell…
Be savage as you ravage
this body, this bed…
Seduction carries an inherent danger when an imbalance of power exists.
But you like the danger too.
The redness of the skin
The bruising of the body
The trickle of blood and its metallic taste on the tongue.
Like tasting winter…
“Among the homosexuals were exceptional people whose deviance could be called tragic; on the other hand [there were] also cheap hustlers and blackmailers. The prisoners with the pink triangle never lived long. They were exterminated by the SS quickly and systemically.†~ Raimund Schnabel
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November 2018
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