Between World Wars, Gay Customs Flourished In Berlin
GROSS: therefore so now you are in the act of composing another written book called «Long Knives: Homosexuality In Nazi Germany. » Why perhaps you have chose to carry on your quest on gay individuals in Germany?
BEACHY: Well, we thought once I started this that i might find yourself composing some concluding chapters or a concluding chapter in regards to the Third Reich. And I also discovered the subject had been way too big, also it ended up being an independent topic as well as a book that is separate. In addition found some remarkable Gestapo files – so a massive assortment of nazi authorities files through the 1930s and very very very early 1940s that document the Nazi persecution of homosexual individuals, and these files are simply unbelievable. The Nazis would arrest some body and interrogate them and defeat a complete intimate history and then need that the patient recount each of their intimate connections, every one of their social networking sites. […]