{"id":31122,"date":"2009-04-10T21:43:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T01:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=31122"},"modified":"2015-05-27T21:43:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T01:43:48","slug":"nazi-persecution-of-homosexuals-1933-1945-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=31122","title":{"rendered":"Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933\u20131945 Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=31124\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31124\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nazi-persecution-homosexuals.jpg\" alt=\"nazi persecution homosexuals\" width=\"431\" height=\"601\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi German regime promoted racial health policies that sought to eliminate all sources of biological corruption to its dominant &#8220;Aryan&#8221; race. Among the groups persecuted as threats to the national health were Germany&#8217;s homosexual men. Believing them to be carriers of a &#8220;degeneracy&#8221; that weakened society and hindered population growth, the Nazi state arrested and incarcerated in prisons and concentration camps tens of thousands of German men as a means of terrorizing them into social conformity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=31123\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31123\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nazi-homosexuals-560x332.jpg\" alt=\"nazi homosexuals\" width=\"560\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nazi-homosexuals-560x332.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nazi-homosexuals.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This exhibition examines the Nazi regime&#8217;s attempt to eradicate homosexuality. The Nazis&#8217; efforts left thousands dead and shattered the lives of many more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhnyc.org\/e_upcoming.html\">Museum of Jewish Heritage<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Edmond J. Safra Plaza,\u00a036 Battery Place at West Side Highway, NYC,\u00a0646-437-4202, Opens May 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi German regime promoted racial health policies that sought to eliminate all sources of biological corruption to its dominant &#8220;Aryan&#8221; race. Among the groups persecuted as threats to the national health were Germany&#8217;s homosexual men. Believing them to be carriers of a &#8220;degeneracy&#8221; that weakened society and hindered population growth, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[4925,4926,717,4927,4924,836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31125,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31122\/revisions\/31125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}