About 5,000 to 6,000 homosexual men were imprisoned in the concentration camps. Sociologist Rüdiger Lautmann examined 2,542 known cases of homosexual concentration camp prisoners and determined their death rate was 60 percent, compared with 42 percent of political prisoners and 35 percent of Jehovah's Witnesses. Assuming a death rate of between 53 and 60 percent, at least 3,100 to 3,600 men died in the camps. SS guards murdered homosexual prisoners out of cruelty or during sadistic games, disguising the deaths as natural causes. At camps like Mauthausen and Flossenbürg, it was standard practice to work homosexual prisoners to death. In mid-1942 almost all the homosexual prisoners at Sachsenhausen (at least two hundred) were executed. Many homosexual prisoners at Ravensbrück died at the same time. The chances of survival depended on which camp the men were incarcerated in; Neuengamme was considered less harsh for homosexual prisoners than Buchenwald, Dachau, or Sachsenhausen.
about 5000 to 6000 homosexual men were imprisoned in the concentration camps sociologist rüdiger lautmann examined 2542 known cases of homosexual concentration camp prisoners and determined their death rate was 60 percent compared with 42 percent of political prisoners and 35 percent of jehovah's witnesses assuming a death rate of between 53 and 60 percent at least 3100 to 3600 men died in the camps ss guards murdered homosexual prisoners out of cruelty or during sadistic games disguising the deaths as natural causes at camps like mauthausen and flossenbürg it was standard practice to work homosexual prisoners to death in mid-1942 almost all the homosexual prisoners at sachsenhausen (at least two hundred) were executed many homosexual prisoners at ravensbrück died at the same time the chances of survival depended on which camp the men were incarcerated in; neuengamme was considered less harsh for homosexual prisoners than buchenwald dachau or sachsenhausen