This program was made possible by a generous grant from the Wortman Family Trust.

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The Persecution of Homosexuals
Under The Nazi Regime

A Special One-Day Symposium Organized by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

Friday April 28, 2000

 

10-11 AM Session I: Opening Remarks

‘Welcoming Remarks’ – Paul Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

‘Background Presentation’ – John Fout, Professor, Department of History, Bard College, New York

11 AM-1 PM Session II: Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Society

‘Homosexual Panic and Nazi Youth’ – Geoffrey Giles, Professor, Department of History, University of Florida

‘The Campaign Against Homosexuality and Its Effects on Lesbians’ – Claudia Schoppmann, Historian, Center for the Research on Antisemitism, Technical University, Berlin, Germany

‘The Dominance of Experts: The Role of Physicians in the Realization of Nazi Policies Against Homosexuals’ – Günter Grau, Historian, Gay and Lesbian Studies, University of Bremen, Germany

2-4 PM Session III: Research Trends on the Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Society

‘Magnus Hirschfeld and the Legacy of the Institute for Sexual Science’ – Rainer Herrn, Scientific Director, Research Center for the History of Sexology, Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany

‘Commemoration and Community: Gays, Lesbians, and the Collective Memory of the Holocaust’ – Erik N. Jensen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison

‘Current Trends in Research: Problems and Possibilities’ – Rüdiger Lautmann, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen, Germany

4-5 PM Session IV: Closing Remarks

‘Portraits of Gay Survivors and Their Lack of Profile in Memorial Culture’ – Klaus Müller, Project Director for Western Europe, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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