A
snapshot of a German gay couple from the 1930's. Photo courtesy of Schwules Museum, Berlin
In
1935, Youth Group leader Heinz
Dörmer was accused of homosexual activities with members
of his troop, beginning a series of arrests that sent him
to prisons and concentration camps for the next two decades.
Gad
Beck was twenty-two in 1944, when he became the leader
of his underground Jewish resistance group in Berlin.
Gad
Beck (born 1923) in front of his school building, where
his lover Manfred was imprisoned by the Nazis before being
send to a concentration camp.
Heinz
Dörmer (born 1912) spent nearly two decades in German
prisons and concentration camps for violations of Paragraph
175, Germany's anti-sodomy law.
Heinz, who now lives in Berlin, is featured in PARAGRAPH 175.
Heinz
Dörmer, 1928, age 18. Dörmer was 10 when he joined the
German Youth Movement in 1922. He eventually became a group
leader before his troop was forced by the Nazis to join the
Hitler Youth. Photo courtesy of Schwules Museum, Berlin
