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Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim: Gay Survivor of Nazi Persecution and the Holocaust
Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim was one of the few openly documented gay survivors of Nazi persecution — a man whose life reveals a lesser-known chapter of the Holocaust. Born in 1906 in Lübeck, Germany, he grew up during the turbulence of the First World War and the fragile democracy of the Weimar Republic. In the 1920s, he became part of Germany’s vibrant gay community, a world that would soon be violently destroyed after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933.
Under Paragraph 175, which criminalized sexual relations between men, thousands of homosexuals were arrested, imprisoned, and sent to…
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