Reviews tagging 'War'

The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger

14 reviews

becinneverland's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, and War

padancer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

4.75

This should be obligatory read at schools, everywhere in the world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and War

sweaterdad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

An incredible account that, although hard to read at times, is a vital testament to the atrocities endured by queer people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Outing, Sexual harassment, and War

spaghetti_noodle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

The book is about gay men's experience in the Holocaust. When it comes to gay survivors, a lot of their experiences and history were silenced due to stigma and homophobia. Because of this, there is a whole element of the Holocaust that remains under-studied. Reading about Heger's experience taught me a lot about the everyday life in the concentration camps and what had to be done for survival. It was a difficult and emotional read, but I'm glad I got to read his story and learn about this part of history. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, War, and Injury/Injury detail

vanessacorwin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Homophobia, and Murder

Moderate: War

daralexandria's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Violence, Murder, Outing, War, and Deportation

maestro_cerrotorcido's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is incredible. I would say it is a must read for everyone. Most people don't realize not only how horribly gay men were treated during the Holocaust, but also how the defeat of the Nazis was not liberatory for them. The Stalanist and liberal states were just as homophobic as the Nazis. There was no recompense for gay men suffering through the Holocaust, no Nuremburg for them, nothing but more imprisonment and detestations from everyone around them. Unfortunately this has resulted in very few gay male Holocaust survivors telling their stories. That makes this book so important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder, Outing, and Classism

Moderate: Sexism, Antisemitism, Trafficking, and War

waspbutch's review

informative sad tense fast-paced

4.5

Important, honest, disturbing. Glad I read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

mourtarymaggots's review

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

scoobygirl93's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Suicide, and Antisemitism