The special symposium about ” Homosexuals in Nazi Germany” at the USF  Gibbons Alumni Center had a huge crowd. The guest speaker was University of Florida 35 year Emeritus Professor Dr. Geoffrey Giles, a well known International Studies specializing in the WWII travesties and genocide of Jews and on homosexuals in Nazi Germany.

    The event was sponsored in a combined effort by 2015 Jack Chester Foundation, USF Special Library Collections, USF LGBT and Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg.

    Dr Giles mastered the gay grisly diligent inquest and is a leading international expert and speaker on the Homosexual Holocaust. His travels and research studies have him documenting hidden reports of the horrific witch hunt of gays in Germany under Adolf Hitler’s regime.

     Having traveled for over 4 decades to Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Britain, Russia, Hungary and Switzerland to document his research on the Third Reich Holocaust era.. Dr Giles has written books and articles about the German Holocaust.

    His recent essay on   “The Denial of Homosexuality: Same-Sex Incidents in Himmler’s SS and Police,”Journal of the History of Sexuality, Jan-April 2002.

    The symposium program gave a new insight on a worldwide taboo, homosexuality. Did you know that their were between 1941-1945,  32,000/ per year court cases convicting homosexuals during the WW II campaign. Most were sent to concentration camps and then put to death by tragic ways.

    “First were the Jews to be executed. Then the homosexuals!” he presented.

    http://history.ufl.edu/directory/emeritus-faculty/geoffrey-giles/