# Heinz Heger

> Josef Kohout was an Austrian Nazi concentration camp survivor, imprisoned for his homosexuality. He is best known for the 1972 book Die Männer mit dem rosa Winkel, which was written by his acquaintance Hans Neumann using the pen name Heinz Heger, which is often falsely attributed to Kohout. The book is one of very few first-hand accounts of the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi imprisonment. It has been translated into several languages, and a second edition published in 1994. It was the first testimony from a homosexual survivor of the concentration camps to be translated into English, and is regarded as the best known. Its publication helped to illuminate not just the suffering gay prisoners of the Nazi regime experienced, but the lack of recognition and compensation they received after the war's end.

*Austrian gay concentration camp survivor (1915-1994)*

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## Identity
- **Country:** Austria
- **Born:** 1915-01-25
- **Died:** 1994-03-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 49.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 19.7 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 9.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 55.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 50.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Heinz Heger](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Heger)
- [Heinz Heger](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Heger)
- [Josef Kohout](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kohout)
- [Heinz Heger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Heger)
- [Josef Kohout](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kohout)
- [هاینتس هگر](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B3_%D9%87%DA%AF%D8%B1)
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- [Heinz Heger](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Heger)
- [Josef Kohout](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kohout)
- [Josef Kohout](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kohout)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21669960)

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