THE PINK TRIANGLE ARCHIVE

The Pink Triangle Archive

A research archive documenting the men interned in Nazi concentration camps on charges relating to homosexuality: the pink triangle prisoners. Their arrests, their movements between camps, and their fates, recovered from the surviving records.

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900+men recorded
20+camps and subcamps
1933 to 1945the years covered
30fields per record

What the Archive holds

The Database

A structured, searchable record of more than 900 men: identity, arrest, camp transfers, and fate, with a source reference for every entry. Opening autumn 2027.

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Database Analysis

Interactive analyses built on the database: camp populations over time, arrests by period, fates by age and camp, and transfer flows mapped across Central Europe.

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Photo Archive and Literature

Photographs connected to the men and places in the Archive, and a working bibliography of the scholarship on pink triangle persecution.

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The database opens in autumn 2027. Access is expected to open to scholars and researchers first, with wider access to follow. Research enquiries are welcome now: get in touch.

About the project

The Archive is built from the records of the Arolsen Archives and related collections as part of doctoral research at Royal Holloway, University of London. Read more about the project.