Richard Plant (J – March 3, ) was a gay Jewish emigre from Nazi Germany, first to Switzerland and then to the U.S., who became a professor at the City University of New York, where he taught German language and literature from to He authored an opera scenario as well a number of fictional and non-fictional works, notably The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. Plant estimates that between 50, and 59, German men were convicted of homosexuality during the Nazi era and between 5, and 15, perished. In the concentration camps, gays (along with Jews) were the lowest category of prisoner. The Pink Triangle The Nazi War Against Homosexuals By Richard Plant Acknowledgements I had the good fortune to receive encouragement from many women and men who saw me through the long years of work and worry. Four men have gone out of their way to help me; I will list them in order in which they have entered my life and this book;.
Since emigrating to the United States in , he has contributed numerous articles to many publications, and teaches at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He is the author of The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals. Richard Plant's book The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals is a comprehensive work that details the maltreatment of homosexuals under the hands of the men in the Third Reich. The book explores the rise in power of the Nazi party and the increase in sexual prejudices that came with them, the early twentieth century rise of a. The pink triangle (German: Rosa Winkel) was one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, used by the Nazis to identify male prisoners in concentration camps who were sent there because of their homosexuality. Prior to World War II, pink was historically a male colour as an offshoot of red, and pink was chosen not because it meant the wearer was feminine, but because they liked other men. Every.
Richard Plant was one of the first scholars to seriously investigate the Nazi campaign against homosexuals (the Nazis particularly focussed on gay men rather than women) and set a marker for others to follow with the publication of `The Pink Triangle' in The Pink Triangle.: Richard Plant. Henry Holt and Company, - History - Overview. This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS--persecution that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests and thousands of deaths. In this Nazi crusade, homosexual prisoners were confined to death camps where, forced to wear pink triangles, they constituted the lowest rung in.
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