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Title: Last Known Gay Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out in New Interview
Post by: Shana A on January 09, 2009, 04:00:01 PM
Post by: Shana A on January 09, 2009, 04:00:01 PM
Last Known Gay Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out in New Interview
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid69057.asp (http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid69057.asp)
Rudolf Brazda, a 95-year-old German citizen and the last known gay survivor of the Holocaust, has definitively broken his silence on his experience at the Buchenwald camp. In a new interview in the French gay magazine TĂȘtu, Brazda speaks in detail for the first time since he made provisional remarks at the June inauguration of a Berlin memorial to gay victims of the Nazis.
"The way Nazis treated the 'pink triangles' is unspeakable," Brazda told TĂȘtu, referring to the emblem gays were forced to wear to signify their homosexuality. "They had absolutely no mercy."
The "pink triangles" not only had to suffer the ill treatment of the Nazis but also had to endure the homophobia of other prisoners. In the documentary Paragraph 175, which takes its name from the German criminal code provision regarding homosexuality, Pierre Seel, the only Frenchman to have publicly testified about his imprisonment for being gay, explains that "the weakest people in the camps were the homosexuals; they were at the very bottom." Seel died in 2005.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid69057.asp (http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid69057.asp)
Rudolf Brazda, a 95-year-old German citizen and the last known gay survivor of the Holocaust, has definitively broken his silence on his experience at the Buchenwald camp. In a new interview in the French gay magazine TĂȘtu, Brazda speaks in detail for the first time since he made provisional remarks at the June inauguration of a Berlin memorial to gay victims of the Nazis.
"The way Nazis treated the 'pink triangles' is unspeakable," Brazda told TĂȘtu, referring to the emblem gays were forced to wear to signify their homosexuality. "They had absolutely no mercy."
The "pink triangles" not only had to suffer the ill treatment of the Nazis but also had to endure the homophobia of other prisoners. In the documentary Paragraph 175, which takes its name from the German criminal code provision regarding homosexuality, Pierre Seel, the only Frenchman to have publicly testified about his imprisonment for being gay, explains that "the weakest people in the camps were the homosexuals; they were at the very bottom." Seel died in 2005.
Title: Re: Last Known Gay Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out in New Interview
Post by: Pica Pica on January 09, 2009, 04:30:05 PM
Post by: Pica Pica on January 09, 2009, 04:30:05 PM
france didn't legalise homosexuality until 1982?
Title: Re: Last Known Gay Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out in New Interview
Post by: Nero on January 09, 2009, 04:35:42 PM
Post by: Nero on January 09, 2009, 04:35:42 PM
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 09, 2009, 04:30:05 PM
france didn't legalise homosexuality until 1982?
wow i know. figured it'dve been way earlier with them. gay parisians and all.
Title: Re: Last Known Gay Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out in New Interview
Post by: Pica Pica on January 09, 2009, 04:41:00 PM
Post by: Pica Pica on January 09, 2009, 04:41:00 PM
we were 1972, and i thought that was incredibly late.
Title: Re: Last Known Gay Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out in New Interview
Post by: Nero on January 09, 2009, 04:46:48 PM
Post by: Nero on January 09, 2009, 04:46:48 PM
god i don't even know when we were. wow thats pretty messed up, guess i'm a piss poor glbt member. :laugh:
Title: Re: Last Known Gay Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out in New Interview
Post by: Pica Pica on January 09, 2009, 04:53:04 PM
Post by: Pica Pica on January 09, 2009, 04:53:04 PM
i only know the date because it came up in conversation at work today.