Paragraph 175 (2000)

My Movie Diary 2011 (279 movies items)

"7.28 Being the persecuted minority, homosexuals were not much in the discussion with regards to the Holocaust. Add that the small group of survivors was very reluctant to tell their stories, this documentary which took its name from the notorious Nazi edict, is short on revelation and mostly relied on general, apparent facts. Interviews with survivors were day-short and not very well planned, but what little that was gathered is still worth telling."

Documentaries 2000-2009 (252 movies items)

"Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175. "

GLBTQ Documentaries (38 movies items)

" Synopsis: PARAGRAPH 175 is a documentary about the 10-15,000 German men who were arrested because of their homosexuality between the years 1933-1945 during World War II. Some of the men were sent to concentration camps to be killed; an estimated 4,000 survived. PARAGRAPH 175 tells the tragic story and includes interviews with seven of only nine living survivors. The trailer: "

The Holocaust movies (41 movies items)

"The film chronicles the lives of several men who were arrested by the Nazis for homosexuality under Paragraph 175, the sodomy provision of the German penal code, dating back to 1871. Between 1933 and 1945, 100,000 men were arrested under Paragraph 175. Some were imprisoned, others were sent to concentration camps. Only about 4,000 survived"