Paragraph 175
Soros Documentary Fund Te film investigates the Nazi persecution of homosexuals during the Third Reich because of the German Penal Code of 1871 and its anti-sodomy law - Paragraph 175. German historian and member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Klaus Muller interviews the dozen surviving victi...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English French German |
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United Kingdom
1999
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:d3abf30d-d24d-43f8-b9e2-18ab7c232995 |
| Summary: | Soros Documentary Fund
Te film investigates the Nazi persecution of homosexuals during the Third Reich because of the German Penal Code of 1871 and its anti-sodomy law - Paragraph 175. German historian and member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Klaus Muller interviews the dozen surviving victims, now frail and wizened, who recount their experiences in front of the camera. Jewish resistance fighter Gad Beck recalls how he posed as a Hitler Youth in an ultimately vain attempt at saving his lover. One man was freed from a sentence at Dachau only to be interned again at Buchenwald. Another recalls hearing, in the distance, a "singing forest" — the sound of gays bound and tortured by Nazis in a local grove. “Paragraph 175” is their story. |
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| Published: | 1999 |