Module 2: Gender and Sexuality
2. Sexuality
Module 2, Part Two: Sexuality
- “Sex & Sexuality: Nazi Ideology” interrogates how the Nazis and their supporters used sex, sexuality, and gender to persuade the public to support Nazi ideology and persecute Jews.
- “Sexual Violence” explores the historical problem of sexual violence and the Holocaust. Why has it taken so long to normalize and acknowledge accounts of sexual violence against Jewish victims?
- “Nazi Ideology and the Persecution of LGBTQ+ Persons” provides an explanatory context for the Nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ persons as well as the difficulty in tracing the history of Jewish LGBTQ+ victims.