Homophobic Propaganda and the Denunciation of Same-Sex-Desiring Men under National Socialism

Micheler focuses on evidence from Hamburg, which, as a seaport and the second largest city in the German Reich, was reputed to be a "homosexual stronghold." He develops a refined chronology of the evolution of homophobic propaganda and its dissemination, to specify more precisely the stereotypes that were mobilized against those classed as "homosexual," and to investigate the relationships between regime propaganda and denunciations at the grass roots.