About this episode

This episode discusses the overlooked history of queer women in Nazi Germany with historian Sam Huneke.

Expanding on our Project 1933 series, for this episode we talked to historian Sam Huneke about the fate of queer women in Nazi Germany, 1933 and onward. This is a surprisingly contested history, because there was, for a long time, an assumption that women were not really persecuted for being queer in Nazi Germany. While the treatment of female homosexuality (and transgender people) in the Nazi state indeed diverged from that of gay men, this episode shows that this assumption has a lot to do with what you think of as persecution. Sam's book, I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany will be out in April and can be preordered here .

People in this episode

Hosts: Adrian Daub, Moira Donegan

Guest: Sam Huneke

Topics covered

• queer history
• Nazi Germany
• female homosexuality
• persecution
• historical analysis

Keywords

• queer women
• Nazi Germany
• persecution
• female homosexuality
• historian
• Project 1933

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany

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