The Persecution of Homosexuals under the Nazi Regime

This program features eight leading international scholars and historians whose research, analysis, and insights have greatly expanded our understanding of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals. Speakers from the United States and Europe will address how and why homosexuals were persecuted; the medical experiments conducted on homosexuals; why many victims remained silent for decades after the war; and the new research opportunities on this subject. This program is made possible by a generous grant from the Wortman Family Trust. For a full agenda, please visit our website at . Seating is limited. To guarantee a place for this particular event, call tickets.com at (800) 400-9373. Attendance is FREE, but service fees apply. For all other Center events, seating may be reserved by telephoning (202) 488-6162. In conjunction with this symposium, the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is establishing a research fellowship for the year 2001 on the Nazi treatment of homosexuals.

• John Fout, Professor, Department of History, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
  "Background Presentation"
• Geoffrey Giles, Professor, Department of History, University of Florida
  "Homosexual Panic and Nazi Youth"
• Günter Grau, Historian, Gay and Lesbian Studies, University of Bremen, Germany
  "The Dominance of Experts: The Role of Physicians in the Realization of Nazi Policies against Homosexuals"
• Rainer Herrn, Scientific Director, Research Center for the History of Sexology, Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
  "Magnus Hirschfeld and the Legacy of the Institute for Sexual Science"
• Erik N. Jensen, Ph.D.-candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  "Commemoration and Community: Gays, Lesbians, and the Collective Memory of the Holocaust"
• Rüdiger Lautmann, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany
  "Current Trends in Research: Problems and Possibilities"
• Klaus Müller, Project Director for Western Europe, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  "Portraits of Gay Survivors, and Their Lack of Profile in Memorial Culture"
• Claudia Schoppmann, Historian, Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
  "The Campaign against Homosexuality, and Its Effects on Lesbians"