Paragraph 175 (2000)

Rupert Everett: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : The Berlin Wall is only a memory now. The wartime generation is fading away. The country seems determined to create a shining vision of the future. But, a culture is also constructed of memories. Some loom large. Others are hidden.

• Narrator : Aryan purity. Rescue the Fatherland from the shame of defeat. Unveil a glorious future. The Nazis set out to transform the nation into a unified fighting force.

• Narrator : While lesbians seemed to pose not threat, the Nazis saw male homosexuality as a contagious disease that corrupted and weakened the blood of the German people.

• Narrator : Lesbians were spared mass arrest. Researchers have uncovered no more than five cases of lesbian who were sent to Concentration Camps But, the social world they had created was destroyed. Some chose exile. Others married homosexual men. Most quietly disappeared from public view.

• Narrator : A pink triangle for homosexuals. A green triangle for criminals. Red for political prisoners. Black for asocials. Brown for Roma or Sinti, the so-called Gypsies. Purple for Jehovah Witnesses. And for Jews, a yellow triangle or the Star of David.

• Narrator : By 1942, the Final Solution marked Jews throughout Europe for extermination and transports began to death camps in occupied Poland. The official policy for homosexuals remained: reeducation. Since most were German Christians, almost all were spared the gas chambers. Instead, the Nazis selected them for slave labor, surgical experiments, or castration. Almost two-thirds perished in the camps.