French graphic artists Michel Dufranne and Milorad Vicanovic-Maza with Christian Lerolle have produced the first comic book about the gay experience of the Holocaust.
It tells the story of "discreet, cheerful and romantic" designer and advertising art teacher, Andreas from the early 1930s in Berlin.
Life then is OK if you are gay - but the "brown plague" gradually invades the streets, and the city's institutions. Laws are enacted. Andreas experiences violence. He is sent to prison, then a concentration camp.
Surviving the abuse, post-war does not bring more rest. Taken prisoner again, a new fight begins for his rehabilitation. This fight, which seems lost in advance, will be won by betraying his identity. Like many other gays, he disguises his history, saying he was a "red triangle" (political prisoner). He marries a lesbian and together they raise the child she was forced to have with a Nazi officer.
The pink triangle ('Triangle rose') was the symbol in the Nazi concentration camps used to mark gay men. The deportation of homosexuals by the Nazis was part of a logic of repression of "undesirables" (antisocial, criminal, etc.). [...]
The last known survivor of the deportations was Rudolf Brazda, who was sent to Buchenwald for almost three years. He died this year at the age of 98 years.
The anti-gay Paragraph 175 law was finally amended in West Germany in 1969, and homosexuality ceased to be a reason for imprisonment, it was finally repealed in 1994 in the reunited Germany. The authors note that the French Article 331 of the Penal Code in the Vichy regime was only deleted in 1982. (madikazemi.blogspot.com)
It tells the story of "discreet, cheerful and romantic" designer and advertising art teacher, Andreas from the early 1930s in Berlin.
Life then is OK if you are gay - but the "brown plague" gradually invades the streets, and the city's institutions. Laws are enacted. Andreas experiences violence. He is sent to prison, then a concentration camp.
Surviving the abuse, post-war does not bring more rest. Taken prisoner again, a new fight begins for his rehabilitation. This fight, which seems lost in advance, will be won by betraying his identity. Like many other gays, he disguises his history, saying he was a "red triangle" (political prisoner). He marries a lesbian and together they raise the child she was forced to have with a Nazi officer.
The pink triangle ('Triangle rose') was the symbol in the Nazi concentration camps used to mark gay men. The deportation of homosexuals by the Nazis was part of a logic of repression of "undesirables" (antisocial, criminal, etc.). [...]The last known survivor of the deportations was Rudolf Brazda, who was sent to Buchenwald for almost three years. He died this year at the age of 98 years.
The anti-gay Paragraph 175 law was finally amended in West Germany in 1969, and homosexuality ceased to be a reason for imprisonment, it was finally repealed in 1994 in the reunited Germany. The authors note that the French Article 331 of the Penal Code in the Vichy regime was only deleted in 1982. (madikazemi.blogspot.com)
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