Hidden Holocaust?

The persecution of lesbians and gay men by the Nazis is a subject that has been constantly debated during the last decade providing a theme for books articles and plays. Until recently the discussion has remained speculative: most of the relevant documents were stored in closed East German archives and access was denied to scholars and researchers. <p/>As a result of the unification of East and West Germany these archives are now open. <em>Hidden Holocaust</em> by the German scholars Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann of Humboldt Uinversity Berlin demonstrates that the eradication of homosexuals was a declared gol of the Nazis even before they took power in 1933 and provide proof of the systematic anti-gay campaigns the methods used tjo justify discrimination and the incarceration mutilation and murder of gay men and women in Nazi concentration camps. <p/>A chilling but groud-breaking work in gay and lesbian studies.