*** The language in this episode may be triggering for some listeners. The derogatory homophobic and transphobic words that appeared in my research are the words that I have used as I feel these highlight the bigoted views of people at the time of this crime. No offence is intended by using these words. ***

Hitler’s dictatorship persecuted, arrested and prosecuted over 100,000 German, French and Austrian gay men during the 12 years they were in power. Gay men were sterilised, castrated, imprisoned, and deported to concentration camps. While they were imprisoned in concentration camps, they were made to wear a pink triangle on their clothes and this allowed the Nazis to distinguish gay men easily from their fellow prisoners.

The treatment of the men with the pink triangles was abhorrent and it is estimated that about 15,000 men with the pink triangles died in the camps.

This episode explores how this was allowed to happen and stories from some survivors.

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