Oni: homoseksualisci w czasie II wojny swiatowej
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translation: Them: Homosexuals in World War II
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Few Germans who sexually abused and tormented other prisoners in Nazi penitentiary units - this is how men convicted in the years 1933-1945 under paragraph 175 stigmatizing homosexual relations were described in Poland. "They" were aliens, predators, and very few of them. For these three reasons, their history was not studied, commemorated and treated as victims of the Nazi system. The survivors were kept silent. There were no such people in Poland. Homosexual men were arrested and imprisoned in Rawicz, Miedzychod, Wronki, Strzelce Opolskie and Tarnow. They were transported to KL Sachsenhausen, KL Buchenwald, KL Mauthausen, KL Gross-Rosen, the Auschwitz-Birkenau-Monowitz camp complex and Majdanek. They died in penitentiary units in the Reich, and if they managed to survive, they returned home. Their graves can be found in Polish cemeteries. The story about them does not consist of single traces at all. Even if their biographies are incomplete, often interrupted or devoid of a finale, they create an extensive polyphony. The history of non-heteronormative people during World War II still remains taboo. Seventy-five years after the end of the war, there are practically no publications on them in Poland, it is difficult to find even small fragments in general studies. "They" don't exist because of us. Blurred by pre-war phantasms fueled by Nazi propaganda and perverse war and camp gossip, they were equated with nameless seducers, criminals, and anti-social elements. One must finally rebel against these ideas, and it is no longer possible to remain silent about "them".
