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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openedition-oai:revues.org:cliowgh_480 https://doi.org/10.4000/cliowgh.480 urn:doi:10.4000/cliowgh.480 en https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/480 2017-06-19T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e3s5 All rights reserved Outlawed desires: punishing “homosexuals” in annexed Alsace (1940-1945) Clio Belin info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2554-3822 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh Schlagdenhauffen, Régis homosexualité Alsace décision pénale déviance annexion sexuelle nazisme homosexuality Alsace penal sentence deviance sexuel annexion Nazism 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. Cet article questionne la fabrique de la décision pénale en temps de guerre et en situation d’annexion. Il s’appuie sur les jugements pour homosexualité rendus par le tribunal de Strasbourg entre 1942 et 1945. Les données statistiques recueillies permettent d’établir que les Alsaciens jugés durant cette période sont majoritairement jeunes et appartiennent aux classes populaires. Ils sont condamnés pour la plupart à de lourdes peines de prison pouvant aller jusqu’à la perpétuité et cela « dans l’intérêt de la préservation du peuple ». Effet arbitraire de l’« annexion sexuelle », certains sont poursuivis pour des faits antérieurs à l’introduction du droit pénal allemand en Alsace, d’autres immédiatement internés en camp au lendemain de leur libération. Mais plus que simplement des actes, ce sont des identités déviantes qui sont jugées. D’une part au moyen d’une comptabilité des orgasmes qui serait but et preuve d’une activité sexuelle « anormale » ; d’autre part en établissant une hiérarchie des masculinités déviantes qui tend à faire exister le criminel avant le crime. |
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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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Schlagdenhauffen, Régis |
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Outlawed desires: punishing “homosexuals” in annexed Alsace (1940-1945) |
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Outlawed desires: punishing “homosexuals” in annexed Alsace (1940-1945) |
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