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Tell the Homocaust: the men with the pink triangle

Jason Dawsey* article published on the website of the National Museum of the Second World War of New Orleans (United States) on June 30, 2020, freely translated by Vanessa Guadagnini in twelve years of domination the Nazi dictatorship supervised, persecuted and finally assassinated thousands of gay men. The Adolf Hitler regime destroyed all the previous attempts made in Germany to decriminalize ...

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January 27, a day to remember the massacre of the innocenti!

On January 27, 1945, the Russian soldiers entered the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz by breaking down the gates, and in front of them he showed up: a desperate humanity, subjected to suffering and unrealrable pains, who did not spare even children and babies. On January 27 of each year, immense suffering, atrocious death, mass extermination, beyond ...

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The life of homosexuals in the Nazi fields

Will Kohler's article published on the Back2stononewall website (United States) on January 27, 2020, freely translated by Diana the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 (day of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau field) International Holocaust memory day. On this day of commemoration, the United Nations urge each Member State to honor the victims of Nazism and to ...

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Me, Pierre Seel, deported by the Nazis and forgotten by my homeland because they are gay

Article published on the blog The Armari Obert (II) (Spain) on June 1, 2019, freely translated by Federica Porchera, the third party the persecution of the Nazi regime against homosexuals was also perpetrated in the occupied territories. Pierre Seel could never have imagined the consequences of denouncing the theft of his watch in a Mulhouse cruising area. He was only 16 years old, ...

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Paul O'mmontis, a victim of the Nazi extermination of homosexuals

Article published on the blog L'Armari Obert (II) (Spain) on June 1, 2019, freely translated by Federica Porchera, fourth part Paul O'mmontis (1894-1940) was a famous cabaret of the 1920s. He passed most of his youth to Hanover, and then moved to Berlin in 1924, where he began to perform in the cabaret. He became a famous singer, comedian and imitator. His shows ...

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La guerra di resistenza di Gad Beck. Un gay in lotta contro il nazismo

Articolo pubblicato sul blog L’armari obert (II) (Spagna) il 1 giugno 2019, liberamente tradotto da Federica Porchera, seconda parte Gad Beck (1923-2012) fu un antinazista, membro della resistenza e uno degli ultimi sopravvissuti dell’Olocausto. Morì il 14 Giugno 2012 a Berlino. Era in una casa di riposo, e dopo sei giorni avrebbe compiuto 89 anni. Beck fu un attivista gay durante...

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Rudolf Brazda, un gay sopravvissuto al Terzo Reich

Articolo pubblicato sul blog L’armari obert (II) (Spagna) il 1 giugno 2019, liberamente tradotto da Federica Porchera, quinta parte La storia di Rudolf Brazda non è molto diversa da quella di Pierre Seel: entrambi dovettero scontrarsi presto con la barbarie dell’intolleranza nazista. Entrambi conobbero l’odio e l’intolleranza estrema del regime di Adolf Hitler. Entrambi furono costretti a nascondere la propria omosessualità...