Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Paragraph 175 (2000) 81 min

 Paragraph 175 shows how homosexual men were persecuted in Nazi Germany during the war.  Forced to wear a pink triangle as a form of identity, gay men were eventually thrown into prison camps where most perished.  This documentary starts at a time when there are nearly ten of the survivors left to interview.  For me this shows a history that I would not have known otherwise.  I always knew what the pink triangle represented but to be able to listen to men that were there and lived through it - that makes this documentary celluloid gold.  

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