title: Swastika, pink triangle and yellow star-the destruction of sexology and the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany.
abstract: Much early sexological research, indeed the very concept of sexology, was the work of German Jews. Hitler's rise to power first curtailed, then prevented, and finally destroyed all German sex research and a flourishing sex reform movement. Once the scientific and scholarly study of sex had come to an end, the sexual ideology-of Nazism, which was antisemitic, antifeminist, and homophobic, could easily be put into practice. The official persecution of German homosexuals between 1933 and 1945 is discussed as a typical policy of a régime which rejected the rational and critical approach to sexual questions.
authors.affiliation: a Director of Historical Research , Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality , 1523 Franklin St. , San Francisco , CA , 94109.
authors.forename: Erwin J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Haeberle