title: "Stigmata of degeneration". Prisoner markings in Nazi concentration camps.
abstract: The persecution of homosexual men, transvestites, and "race defilers" in Nazi Germany carried the traditional religious and psychiatric stigmatization of sexual nonconformists in Europe to its logical extreme. The system of prisoner markings in Nazi concentration camps and its stigmatizing function are described.
mesh_terms: D003209:Concentration Camps / Q000266:history; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000266:history; D011056:Political Systems / Q000266:history*; D011329:Prisoners; D011330:Prisons / Q000266:history; D044469:Racial Groups; D014190:Transvestism; D014858:War Crimes