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This page holds archives related to LGBTQIA+ history during World War II from the perspective of the United States.

Purge in Germany (1934)

  • Waterbury Democrat, a newspaper in the State of Connecticut describes a Nazi purge and mass arrests in two articles in December 1934. 1000 arrests of gay citizens in German cities are reported between two days.
  • Another newspaper in the State of California, Imperial Valley Press, shares the alleged denial from the Nazi government.


German Tennis Player Tried (1938)

  • The Evening Star, a newspaper for the Washington D.C., describes in May of 1938 the sentence of tennis player Baron Gottried von Cramm, "world's no. 2 amateur tennis player". He was allegedly sentenced to ten months in prison under section 175, which the Nazis used to criminalize gay relationships.


War Crimes in Germany (1945)

  • A piece published across several newspapers in the USA in May of 1945 detailing war crimes being tried against the Nazis over the treatment of 40,000 prisoners, including gay prisoners.