Vergessene homosexuelle Opfer

[Zeus]

Lese gerade einen Artikel über Homosexuelle im KZ Buchenwald und ich muss die historisch Kundigen von euch fragen: Weiß man, ob es Leute gab, die mit den Nazis in KZs kooperierten, um zumindest nicht zu sterben? Dass es eine Hierarchie geben soll, weiß ich und dass Schwule hier ziemlich tief waren (auch unter den Gefangenen selbst), weiß ich ebenfalls.
Ich könnte mir aber vorstellen - zumindest hätte ich es so gemacht - dass es irgendjemanden gab, der andere Gefangene anschwärzte, sei es "begründet" oder unbegründet. Ich würde also beispielsweise so tun, als ob jemand versucht hätte, mich zu verführen; das würden mir die Nazis ziemlich schnell glauben. Dann würde ich anbieten, ob ich denn nicht geheim für sie spitzeln könnte und ihnen einfach mehr Homo-Vorwürfe erzähle, mit der Hoffnung, dass ich selbst niemals getötet würde.
Und spart euch die moralisierenden Vorwürfe.

Nachtrag: Ah, okay, soll wohl solche Fälle gegeben haben.

From the archival material and from reports by political inmates
it is evident that sexual contacts between office-holding inmates
and other, mainly young inmates were often used politically in the
battle for positions within the camp. That is, knowledge of such
contacts could be used to ‘‘shut out’’ or remove criminal or politi-
cally unpopular inmates from these offices. This was, for example,
the case in 1943 in the dispute surrounding the replacement of the
then Camp Senior, Fritz Wolff. Wolff, a former army officer, who
had emerged above the ranks of the criminals to take over the
position of Camp Senior from an inmate by the name of Ohle, was
regarded by the SS as a reliable incumbent. However, he had sexual
relations with ‘‘toy boys.’’In the inmate index Wolff is listed not as
a homosexual but as a political prisoner, a ‘‘political Jew.’’ He soon
encountered opposition from the illegal camp leadership of the
political prisoners, organized and dominated by Communists.
Eugen Kogon writes of this:


In order to gain support among the inmates, he sought contact
to the Poles via one of his ‘‘toy boys.’’ As some notorious
inmates, eager to gain power for themselves, had just come
from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, the German Communists
began to fear an internal coup. Their concerns were increased
through open threats to the Camp Senior. Wolff knew that a
certain German Communist from Magdeburg was about to be
released. He let it be known that he proposed to forestall the
release by reporting the man for political activity in the camp.
This was answered with the counterthreat that the SS would be
informed of Wolff’s homosexual practices. Finally the ten-
sions came to a head in such a way that the illegal camp
leadership itself denounced the Camp Senior to the SS with the
assertion that under Wolff’s leadership a Polish plot was being
hatched to stage an insurrection! The consequences were cata-
strophic for a number of Poles, who in my opinion were quite
innocent; they were given lethal injections by Dr. Hoven. The
Austrian Communist Kapo from the ‘‘Pathology Department’’
Gustav Wegerer and I were able to save the Polish doctor
Marian Ciepielowski by intervening with Hoven and Dr.
Ding-Schuler. Wolff himself was sent to a satellite camp on the
Baltic. . . .

 

[daritus]

hmm Schwule /homosexuelle, waren unter den Nazis weit verbreitet. Natürlich konnten die sich nicht ausleben. Unter den Häftlingen gab es mit sicherheit auch homosexuelle etc.