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Perfectly Ordinary People
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Nick Alexander11,382 ratings, 4.46 average rating, 475 reviews
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“At the end of the war quite a few homosexuals were transferred from the concentration camps straight into prison Most survivors were obviously freed, but often the ones with pink triangles, the homosexuals, were transferred to prisons so they could finish serving their sentences.’
‘I don’t understand why?’
‘For the simple reason that homosexuality was still illegal almost everywhere. Many courts even refused to consider the time these men had spent in the camps as counting against their sentences. So there were gay men, particularly in Germany, who’d been arrested in, say 1938, and sentenced to five years in prison. And if they were lucky enough to have survived until 1945 – and very few did manage to survive that long – but if they had made it until the liberation of the camps, they got transferred straight to prison so they could finish serving their time.”
― Perfectly Ordinary People
‘I don’t understand why?’
‘For the simple reason that homosexuality was still illegal almost everywhere. Many courts even refused to consider the time these men had spent in the camps as counting against their sentences. So there were gay men, particularly in Germany, who’d been arrested in, say 1938, and sentenced to five years in prison. And if they were lucky enough to have survived until 1945 – and very few did manage to survive that long – but if they had made it until the liberation of the camps, they got transferred straight to prison so they could finish serving their time.”
― Perfectly Ordinary People
“I'm never quite sure if I'm supposed to feel ashamed about this, but, yes, that's what we did.”
― Perfectly Ordinary People
― Perfectly Ordinary People
“People think their rights – their human rights – are set in stone. But all it takes is one bad government and it’s all over.”
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― Perfectly Ordinary People
“I often think that our biggest problem – as humans – is our belief that things will stay the same. Our incapacity to imagine just how much, and how quickly, everything can change. People think their rights – their human rights – are set in stone. But all it takes is one bad government and it’s all over.”
― Perfectly Ordinary People
― Perfectly Ordinary People
“I can see why people don’t want to talk about it. But the problem if you don’t is that people forget, and if people forget then the whole thing can happen again.”
― Perfectly Ordinary People
― Perfectly Ordinary People
“The reason people fought and resisted the Germans and saved people and died in the war . . .’ Jake said. ‘Wasn’t it so that the Jews and the Roma and the gays and the communists and the disabled and everyone else who wasn’t a perfect, blond, blue-eyed German could live an ordinary life? Wasn’t it precisely so that you could live your ordinary life and get married, and have us, and we could grow up and not have to be Nazis? Wasn’t it so that we could all live normal lives?”
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― Perfectly Ordinary People
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