Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur 2024

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Documentary History TV Movie

Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era - but the Nazis also discriminated against lesbians and trans people. They should be excluded from the national community. More than 50,000 queer people have been proven to have been persecuted. The documentary highlights three poignant fates in the context of Nazi terror: Elli Smula was persecuted as a lesbian, Liddy Bacroff was harassed by the authorities as a "transvestite" and Rudolf Brazda was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp because of his homosexuality. In order to tell their stories, the actor Jannik Schümann and the activists Julia Monro and Kerstin Thost go looking for clues in archives and talk to historians. You will learn how some people managed to live out their identity and assert themselves as queer people during the Nazi era despite the most adverse circumstances.

Release Date 2024-01-16
Runtime 45m
Directors Sebastian Scherrer, Michael Khano, Patrick Meyer-Clement
Producers Fabio Mauro, Florian Hartung, Sascha Lienert
Writer Sebastian Scherrer