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Rudolf Brazda, believed last surviving gay concentration camp prisoner, dies at 98
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Aug 05, 2011 03:20am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, August 4, 2011 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | BERLIN — Rudolf Brazda, believed to be the last surviving person who was sent to a Nazi concentration camp because of his homosexuality, has died, a German gay rights group said Thursday. He was 98.
The Berlin branch of the Lesbian and Gay Association, or LSVD, said that Brazda died on Wednesday. It didn’t give details of the location or cause of death.
Brazda was sent to the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp in August 1942 and held there until its liberation by U.S. forces in 1945.
Nazi Germany declared homosexuality an aberration that threatened the German race, and convicted some 50,000 homosexuals as criminals. An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 gay men were deported to concentration camps, where few survived. |
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