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‘Gay Cure’ Experiment - At Buchenwald concentration camp, Danish SS doctor Carl Vaernet experimented on homosexual subjects using hormones and artificial glands. His goal was to override homosexual feelings by injecting hormones into mens’ testicles and implanting glands in their bodies. Many of the subjects died due to complications and infections, and rumors circulated that as many had been castrated.
Between June and December of 1944, Vaernet tried various gland techniques on 17 Buchenwald inmates. Two contracted fatal illnesses as a result. In the grand scheme of things, almost all of the 15,000 gay and lesbian inmates of Nazi camps did not survive.
All of Carl Vaernet’s research proved to be a complete failure. Within the Third Reich, Vaernet became a laughingstock. At war’s end, he cowardly escaped justice by faking a heart attack while in custody and fleeing to South America, where he died in 1965.
Vaernet was the only Nazi doctor proven to have taken an interest exclusively in homosexuality, and it is possible that he helped inspire the South African apartheid government to take a similar interest. From the 1960’s until the late 1980’s, the South African military forced it’s white gay and lesbian members to undergo various ‘cures’ for their orientation, including mandatory sex change operations.
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“Historians are dangerous people, capable of turning everything topsy-turvy. They have to be watched.”
-Nikita KhrushchevIn Soviet Russia, history watches you.
we are still in iraq today…. what gives?
DECEMBER 13: SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURED (2003)
Eight years ago today, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces, just 9 months after the start of the Iraq War.
This scene from FRONTLINE’s “Bush’s War Part 2” takes you back to the moment the former president was found in a cellar.
Also take a look back with Washington Week episode from that week in 2003.
