The documentary, screened in conjunction with the library’s “Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings” exhibit, features commentary by the five surviving victims of the Nazis’ ...

Pierre Seel, who was imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II for homosexuality, died last week in Toulouse, France. Filmmaker Rob Epstein interviewed Seel for his film Paragraph 175, a ...

Between 1933 and 1945 when the Nazis came to power in Germany an estimated 100,000 homosexual men were arrested, of whom 50,000 were sentenced under criminal law Paragraph 175. Most served prison ...

Germany’s parliament felt remorse that "Paragraph 175" was maintained after the war. The law was officially removed in its entirety in 1994, the news outlet said. German authorities have compensated ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This ...