For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed "undesirable," suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime. Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer ever came forward to tell their stories. This account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality remains an important contribution to gay history and our understanding of historical fascism, as well as a remarkable and complex story of survival and identity.

Translation of : Männer mit dem rosa Winkel. Originally published in German in 1972. First published in English in 1980. Written by Heinz Heger from experiences described to him by Austrian Holocaust survivor Josef Kohout.