Uncertain Lives, Untimely Deaths: Experiences and Psychological Needs of the Young Adult with Serious Chronic Illness Book

	List of Documents
	Register of Persons
	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Persecution, 'Re-education' or 'Eradication' of Male Homosexuals between 1933 and 1945: Consequences of the Eugenic Concept of Assured Reproduction	1
	The Position of Lesbian Women in the Nazi Period	8
Pt. I	Public Discrimination against Homosexual Men: Particular Actions after 1933	17
a	Disputes about Whether Homosexuality Should Be a Criminal Offence	18
b	Police Raids, Bans and Arrests: 1933 to 1935	26
Pt. II	Tightening up the Law from September 1935	63
a	The National Socialist Revision of Section 175 of the Penal Code	64
b	Discussions Concerning the Prosecution of Lesbians	71
Pt. III	The Stepping up of Prosecutions from 1936	85
a	Nation-wide Registration of Homosexual Men	86
b	The Reich Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion - an Instrument of Practical Implementation	103
c	The Consequences	131
Pt. IV	Intensified Persecution after 1939	161
a	'Ruthless Severity' in the Wehrmacht	162
b	The Death Penalty for Homosexuals in the SS and Police	192
c	Action in the Occupied Territories	200
d	Combating 'Homosexual Transgressions' in the Hitler Youth	221
Pt. V	Castration as an Instrument of Repression	245
Pt. VI	Homosexual Men in Concentration Camps: The Example of Buchenwald	263
a	Pink-Triangle Prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp	264
b	Experiments in 'Reversal of Hormonal Polarity' at Buchenwald	281
	Appendix	293
	Sources of the Illustrations	294
	Sources of the Documents	295
	Index	299