man in a uniform Explaining Nazi approaches to homosexuality and the homoerotic Maya Austen Abstract Research Question What best explains the Nazi construction of sexual identity and specifically homosexuality ID: 461790
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I like a man in a uniform: Explaining Nazi approaches to homosexuality and the homoerotic
Maya Austen Slide2
AbstractResearch Question: What best explains the Nazi construction of sexual identity, and specifically homosexuality?Puzzle: Hypocrisy and inconsistency that Nazis were anti-homosexual and yet arguably displayed homoerotic qualities.Slide3
BackgroundIn 1933, Nazis purged gay clubs in Berlin, banned all gay organizations, and burned scholarly books about
sex.
During the Second Reich German criminal code regarding sex was difficult to enforce.
In 1934 Hitler killed Rohm during the Night of the Long Knives and used the fact that he was gay to quell SA outrage.
In 1935, the Nazi regime turned homosexuality from being minor offence into a felony by revising Paragraph 175.
Pink Triangle: 50,000 homosexuals were killed in Nazi concentration campsSlide4
Primary SourcesSlide5
ReactionBecause homosexuality was associated with the Weimar era, the Nazis had to oppose it.Slide6
Respectability In order to secure itself broad legitimacy with small town bourgeois Germany, the Nazi Party largely abided by notions of heterosexual decency, family values, sex in wedlock, and prohibitions on public displays of nudity. Slide7
Refinement Nazis wanted an organic homogeneity, a Volksgemeinschaft with sexual and social conformity that did not cross what they, and obliging medical scientists, regarded as natural boundaries. Slide8
RepopulationAlthough Nazis may not have been against the act of male on male sexual activity itself, their pro-birth campaign left no room for sex that did not lead to the proliferation of German offspring. Slide9
RearmamentRather than condoning homosexuality, homoeroticism idealized militarized masculinity and camaraderie. Slide10
Analysis Theory
Brown Plague
Nude Male Book
Reaction
Strong
Weak
Respectability
Medium
Weak
Refinement
Strong
Strong
Repopulation
Weak
Medium
Rearmament
Medium
StrongSlide11
ConclusionStrong: Rearmament, RefinementMedium: Reaction, RespectabilityWeak: Repopulation