Leo Clasen

Leo Clasen was a Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp because of his homosexuality.^[1] He wrote about his experiences in 1954–1955 in the Hamburg magazine Humanitas, Monatszeitschrift für Menschlichkeit und Kultur,^[2] which was published in seven parts under the pseudonym L. D. Classen von Neudegg.^[3] His account is one of the most significant records of the experience of homosexuals during the holocaust. He was born on 26 June 1906 in Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and was educated as a doctor.^[4]

References

1. Steakley, James, "Homosexuals and the Third Reich," The Body Politic, issue 11, Canada, 1974
2. Jensen, Erik N., "The Pink Triangle and Political Consciousness: Gays, Lesbians and the Memory of Nazi Persecution," Sexuality and German Fascism, p. 323, ed. Herzog, Dagmar, Berghahn Books, New York, New York, USA, 2005
3. Zastrau, Eberhard, "Funktionshäftlinge mir dem rosa Winkel im Krankenrevier des ehemaligen KZ Sachsenhausen"
4. Zastrau, Eberhard, "Funktionshäftlinge mir dem rosa Winkel im Krankenrevier des ehemaligen KZ Sachsenhausen"

See also

• Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust