Heinz Heger

Heinz Heger was the penname of Josef Kohout, the gay Austrian survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, who later wrote the account "The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps." The original title is "Der Mann mit dem rosa Winkel."

To learn more about the Nazi concentration camp survivor who died in 1994, please read the article by Kurt Krickler found at http://www.ausdemleben.at/heger.pdf. It is in the German language.

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