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Third Reich Homophobia

DW staff / DPA (jp)July 12, 2007

July is gay pride month in Germany, overshadowed this year by the 70th anniversary of the gay pogrom in Germany. New documents reveal that almost 55,000 gay men met their deaths in Nazi Germany.

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Gay men were forced to wear a pink triangle in concentration camps
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