USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research: Anti-semitism and Homophobia in Nazi Germany: Different but Related Hatreds

USC University Religious Center Fishbowl

A lecture with Peter Hayes, Ph.D.

Northwestern University

Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor Peter Hayes examines anti-Semitism and homophobia as central components of Nazi racism.

Professor Hayes will describe the differing contexts, motives, objectives, and scales of the Nazi persecutions of European Jews and German gay men, and then show that similar justification, escalation, degradation, and lasting damage characterized each process. The lecture will conclude with an examination of the contrasting aftereffects of each form of persecution on the respective prejudices after World War II.