Verbotene Liebe: Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur | ZDFinfo Doku

Even more documentaries are available here ➡️ https://kurz.zdf.de/bXgY/ A new documentary every Wednesday and Saturday? Then subscribe to ZDFinfo. 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 transgender people. They were to be excluded from the national community. More than 50,000 queer people were demonstrably persecuted. 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. To tell their stories, actor Jannik Schümann and activists Julia Monro and Kerstin Thost search for clues in archives and speak with historians. You will learn how some, despite the most adverse circumstances, managed to live out their identity and assert themselves as queer people during the Nazi era. With the end of National Socialism, the injustices perpetrated against homosexual and transgender people remained unpunished for a long time. Even after 1945, they remained socially undesirable. It wasn't until 2022 that they were officially commemorated in the German Bundestag. Most have never received compensation for the injustices they suffered. ... A FILM BY Sebastian Scherrer CAMERA Michael Khano Patrick Meyer-Clement EDITING Robert Handrick SOUND Luca Schliefer VOICE ACTOR Philippa Jarke PRODUCTION Sina Eckhardt (ZDFinfo) Gwendoline Böttger (Februar Film) Judith Prollius (Februar Film) PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Marc Epping (ZDFinfo) Sascha Lienert (Februar Film) PRODUCER Fabio Mauro PRODUCER Florian Hartung ARCHIVES akg-images, Arolsen Archives, Bridgeman Images, German Federal Archives, Chronos Media, Critical Past, Edition Filmmuseum, Filmarchiv Austria, History Vision, Jana Demnitz / Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin State Archives, Magnus Hirschfeld Society, Ravensbrück Memorial, Freiburg Military Archives, National Archives, picture alliance, Pond5, State Archives Bremen, Hamburg State Archives, TRIANOmedien, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum EDITORIAL TEAM Annette Harlfinger Silvia Menzel A PRODUCTION OF February Film ZDF 2024 00:00 Intro 01:08 Rudolf Brazda - Gay Among the Nazis 12:12 Rudolf in the Concentration Camp 17:12 Liddy Bacroff - Trans* Among the Nazis 24:53 Liddy in the Concentration Camp 29:18 Elli Smula - Lesbian Among the Nazis 35:36 Elli in the Concentration Camp 41:36 Developments Also check out: #ZDFinfo on Instagram:   / zdfinfo   ZDFinfo on TikTok:   / zdfinfo   ZDFinfo on Facebook:   / zdfinfo   ZDFinfo on Twitter:   / zdfinfo   #zdfinfo #lgbtq #ww2