Outlawed desires: punishing “homosexuals” in annexed Alsace (1940-1945)
This article questions how criminal decisions were made in a situation of wartime and territorial annexation. The sources are based on the sentences passed for homosexuality by the Strasbourg court between 1942 and 1945. Statistical data shows that the Alsatians who were put on trial during this tim...
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| প্রকাশিত: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh, |
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| বিন্যাস: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| ভাষা: | Anglais |
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Clio
2017
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | This article questions how criminal decisions were made in a situation of wartime and territorial annexation. The sources are based on the sentences passed for homosexuality by the Strasbourg court between 1942 and 1945. Statistical data shows that the Alsatians who were put on trial during this time period were mostly young and belonged to the working classes. Moreover, most were condemned to heavy prison sentences “in the interest of preserving the people.” As an indication of the arbitrary effect of the “sexual annexation”, some were prosecuted for acts committed prior to the introduction of the German criminal law in Alsace (1942); others were immediately interned in a concentration camp after their release. But more than simply condemning acts, the judges considered deviant identities. On the one hand they registered the numbers of accused men’s orgasms, considered to be both purpose and evidence of abnormal sexual activity; and on the other, they established a hierarchy of masculinities, which created the criminal before the crime. |
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