Antisemitism and Homophobia
in Nazi Germany:
Different But Related Hatreds

March 10, 2015

A public lecture by Peter Hayes (Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor at Northwestern University)

Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor Peter Hayes (Northwestern University) examines antisemitism and homophobia as central components of Nazi racism.

Professor Hayes will describe the differing contexts, motives, objectives, and scales of the Nazi persecutions of European Jews and German gay men, and then show that similar justification, escalation, degradation, and lasting damage characterized each process. The lecture will conclude with an examination of the contrasting aftereffects of each form of persecution on the respective prejudices after World War II.