Reviews for The pink triangle

The average rating for The pink triangle based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-22 00:00:00 Millicent Sullivan This was one of the harder reads for me over the Holocaust because it had more of a personal twinge to it than the other books that I have read. The book focuses primarily on the plight of homosexual men during the holocaust. We are aware of the fact that numerous jewish individuals died during this event, but most people are not aware of the other 5 million people that died. There is a mix of various other classes of individuals that died during this horrendous event of our history. One of these groups were homosexuals. They were put in the camps as well. This book focuses in on that. Sometimes the other seems to go off on other tangents that does not focus entirely on the homosexual plight in the camps and holocaust, but once you get to the end you understand how it all ties together. I feel he could have organized the book slightly better, but overall you learn a great deal about a subject that seems to get swept under the rug a lot. This book will educate you on how it was possible for even gay men to be treated horribly during this time period. Also you will learn how the Nazi party would use homosexuality to weed out people they didn't like in their party. It is a book that will teach you something you didn't know about the Holocaust and as a result you will understand the modern day world better.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-05 00:00:00 Cheryl Roudnew Under the Nazi regime, homosexual men were confined to death camps where they were forced to wear pink triangles as a symbol of their crime. They were at the bottom of the camp hierarchy, brutalized and abused past the point of human endurance. In this book, the horror of life in the Nazi's concentration camps is revealed through diaries, interviews with, and letters from survivors. Every school child learns that the Nazis tried to exterminate the Jews. Few are told of the other segments of "undesirables" who were forced into the same fate. The Roma (Gypsies), political prisoners, and homosexual men were among those also targeted for extinction. So many young gay people today don't realize the important significance of the pink triangle ~ they think it just another symbol of pride, and don't realize that it has been reclaimed from a horrific history in which many men died for their sexuality. This book helps the common reader understand why Hitler began his hateful anti-homosexual campaign. Through the survivor's stories, it paints a vivid portrait not only of the despicable depths of hatred to which men can sink, but it also shows us the undefeatable spirit of the human race to withstand and move on from such adversity. I cannot recommend this book enough ~ it is only through realizing what we have been through that we learn what we will be able to overcome.