Study On The Existential Conditions Of German Gay Men In Nazi Reign

With the development of the times,the legitimacy and governance issues of the homosexual community have received increasing attention from society.With the recognition of the legality of gay marriage in the Netherlands in 2001,many Western countries have gradually accepted gay marriage.But historically,the phenomenon of oppression of homosexuality in Western countries has been serious.Especially during the Nazi Germany,the German gay group was persecuted unprecedentedly.This is an outbreak of homophobia in the West for a long time,and it has a profound impact on the homosexual group and the governance of homosexuality issues afterwards.Since the Middle Ages,due to violations of Christian doctrines,gay men have been oppressed and discriminated against,and gay men have been oppressed by law and morality.This is also true in the history of Germany.Since the unification of Germany in 1871,the gay group has always been in an illegal position in Germany.However,with the development of the times,the living environment of the gay group in Germany has become more and more relaxed.In Weimar period,Berlin was the "gay capital" of Western Europe,and homosexuals from all over the world yearned for Berlin,because the social environment in Berlin was more relaxed for the gay community at that time,and the gay life and entertainment styles were rich and diverse,and the early homosexual movement is developed in Germany.However,this is only a temporary phenomenon.As the Nazis came to power,gay men in Germany gradually lost their living space.Berlin is no longer a city that everyone yearns for.They fled Germany one after another,and gay men who had to stay in Germany for various reasons became the targets of Nazi oppression.Taking the Rohm Affair as a turning point,the Nazis began to arrest gay men.First,the law on homosexuality was revised to legalize the persecution by the Nazis.Then they began to exclude and arrest gay men and arrested men from all levels of society and politics.Some of the arrested gay men were sent to a concentration camp.In the concentration camps,gay men have been physically and mentally abused,and the survival rate is extremely low.With the progress of the World War Ⅱ and the loss of a large number of young men in Germany,Nazi measures to deal with arrested gay men have changed.Some gay men in concentration camps were sent to factories to make war necessities,while gay men in the army also have opportunity to choose to go to the front line to prove their "masculinity." At the same time,the measures taken by Germany to treat gay men in the occupied areas vary according to ethnicity.Generally speaking,they are relatively loose compared with the domestic.With the end of World War Ⅱ,the Nazi rule also ended,but the persecution of gay men did not end.The persecution of gay men during the Nazi had a profound impact.The early development of the gay movement was interrupted,and the self-cognition and social cognition of the gay community entered deeper misunderstandings.As a result,for a long period of time after the war,homosexual groups concealed their own sexual orientation.However,these oppressive history eventually became the source of strength for the rise of the gay liberation movement in the 1970s and 1980s.