Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur

January. 16,2024

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

History Documentary TV Movie

Keywords：

National Socialism Lgbt Rights Nazi Germany

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Jannik Schümann as Self - Interviewee & Investigator

Magnus Hirschfeld as Self (archive footage)

Ernst Röhm as Self (archive footage)

Heinrich Himmler as Self (archive footage)

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