Heinz Heger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian gay concentration camp survivor
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Heinz Heger
- Josef Kohout (24 January 1915 – 15 March 1994) was an Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor, imprisoned for his homosexuality.
- He is best known for the 1972 book Die Männer mit dem rosa Winkel (The Men With the Pink Triangle), which was written by his acquaintance Hans Neumann using the pen name Heinz Heger, which is often falsely attributed to Kohout.
- The book is one of very few first-hand accounts of the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi imprisonment.
- It has been translated into several languages, and a second edition published in 1994.
- It was the first testimony from a homosexual survivor of the concentration camps to be translated into English, and is regarded as the best known.
- Its publication helped to illuminate not just the suffering gay prisoners of the Nazi regime experienced, but the lack of recognition and compensation they received after the war's end. Kohout's book inspired the 1979 play Bent, by Martin Sherman, which was made into the movie Bent, directed by Sean Mathias, in 1997.
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