This work examines how death, suicide and violence shaped modern queer culture, arguing
that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, influenced the …

Weimar Germany (1919–33) was an era of equal rights for women and minorities, but also of
growing antisemitism and hostility toward the Jewish population. This led some Jews to want …

A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture,
consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany's first …

Observers of German current affairs and historians of contemporary Germany have long
been cognizant of the shadow that the Nazi past and its crimes cast over postwar German …

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE PLAYED an increasingly important role in the efforts of early
twentieth-century sexual scientists to establish their discipline as what Michel Foucault …

The two topics of sexuality and Holocaust are connected by profound discomfort but also by
immense public interest. Resonating with Elizabeth Heineman's description of sexuality and …

For many Holocaust historians, prostitution is a source of profound discomfort and tends to
be interpreted only as sexual violence. This essay presents a historiographical and …

The Color of Desire tells the story of how, in the aftermath of gay liberation, race played a
crucial role in shaping the trajectory of queer, German politics. Focusing on the Federal …

Abstract Dieses Handbuch macht queere Zeitgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum zum
ersten Mal einem breiten Publikum zugänglich. Die Beiträge und Quellen geben Einblicke in …

This article examines feminist scholar Joan Ringelheim's inquiry about sexual violence and
same-sex practices among women during the Holocaust. Drawing on her unpublished …