![]() This is especially true for those in the gay community who also found themselves the victims of Hitler’s maniacal urge to purge Europe of anyone he considered impure, perverse or ideologically dangerous. Some great writers have captured the Holocaust from the Jewish perspective but similar memoirs from other persecuted groups are much less familiar. But many also stress the need to write down what they saw for the sake of history – to bear witness – for those of us coming along later and trying to understand what depths of hell can be mined in the cause of extremist ideologies. If you’ve lived through and witnessed some of the worst things one human being can inflict on another, how is it possible to revisit that time, to analyse or even just describe the depth of horror that you have been party to? Those who have written their memoirs of surviving the Nazi Holocaust do so for undoubtedly mixed and complex reasons, including the need to confront their own feelings of guilt that they made it while others, no less deserving, died. Posted on I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A memoir of Nazi terror by Pierre Seel ![]()
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