The documentary, screened in conjunction with the library’s “Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings” exhibit, features commentary by the five surviving victims of the Nazis’ ...

Pierre Seel, who was imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II for homosexuality, died last week in Toulouse, France. Filmmaker Rob Epstein interviewed Seel for his film Paragraph 175, a ...

BERLIN — Germany's Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill that would annul the convictions of thousands of gay men under a law criminalizing homosexuality that was applied zealously in post-World War II ...

Germany’s parliament felt remorse that "Paragraph 175" was maintained after the war. The law was officially removed in its entirety in 1994, the news outlet said. German authorities have compensated ...

Watching director Sebastian Meise’s “Great Freedom” is a process of watching the main character, Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski), get brutalized and dehumanized. The narrative takes place almost ...

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code. Thousands were murdered in concentration camps. This ...