I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror

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Summary: A very moving book that needs to be read widely.
Review: Pierre Seel's memoirs of being detained in a Nazi concentration camp because he was homosexual is a powerfull and well documented treatise on what happend to gays during the Nazi regime. I'd give it five stars except that the last half of the book focuses on the trouble he faced as a gay man in post-war France in trying to gain compensation from the government for his experience, something other camp survivors received. Maybe that's the editor in me. That information is important to the book, but Seel failed in my view to give that portion of the book the same power he gave to the first two-thirds. Either way, this is a book people need to read. It adds to the evidence to show that the tripe others publish in an attempt to show that gays and Nazis were somehow in bed together is nothing more than more reactionary rhetoric designed to work your emotions. Because if you examine the evidence, you soon find that such a treatise is severely lacking.