Every sick, morally corrupt, political and/or social movement needs an Other to demonize and scapegoat. The sicker and more corrupt the movement the more Others it creates. The Nazis, therefore, had numerous groups that they used to arouse fear, resentment and grievance among the German population. In addition to Jews there were all the other non Aryans of the world, as well as communists, Catholics, the nations of Western Europe and North America that had defeated Germany in World War One, artists, and intellectuals deemed "decadent" and, as this powerful and sobering documentary shows, the male homosexual sub culture that flourished during the Weimar years.
The film is centered around interviews with eight of the ten known gay survivors of concentration camps who were still alive at the time the film was made. All are in their late eighties or early nineties. And though their reactions vary from anger to sadness to cynicism to near breakdown all are, in their various ways, eloquent and moving witnesses to the unspeakable horror of Germany under Hitler and his gang and a timely reminder that It Could Happen Here. A minus.
PS...Ironically, in a film that screams mass murder and injustice, narrator Rupert Everett needed to speak more loudly. My only criticism.
The film is centered around interviews with eight of the ten known gay survivors of concentration camps who were still alive at the time the film was made. All are in their late eighties or early nineties. And though their reactions vary from anger to sadness to cynicism to near breakdown all are, in their various ways, eloquent and moving witnesses to the unspeakable horror of Germany under Hitler and his gang and a timely reminder that It Could Happen Here. A minus.
PS...Ironically, in a film that screams mass murder and injustice, narrator Rupert Everett needed to speak more loudly. My only criticism.