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Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps

Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps

FromWitness History: World War Two


Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps

FromWitness History: World War Two

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Feb 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 2009, Rudolf Brazda, one of the last known survivors of the Pink Triangles, returned to the former site of Buchenwald concentration camp where he’d been imprisoned during World War Two, for being gay in Nazi Germany.

In never previously broadcast recordings, taped by Jean-Luc Schwab, who wrote Rudolf’s biography, we hear Rudolf’s reaction to returning as a 95-year-old man.

Jean-Luc Schwab who became friends with Rudolf in the last few years of his life, speaks to Reena Stanton-Sharma.

This programme contains distressing details.

(Photo: Rudolf Brazda. Credit: Frederick Florin/ Getty Images)
Released:
Feb 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

More than 50 first-hand accounts of significant moments in WW2. Looking back at almost six years of global conflict, from Hiroshima to the Holocaust.