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06/11/2021

On this day, 11 June 1943, Karl Gorath, a 20-year-old gay German nurse, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was first arrested for homosexuality after being denounced by a jealous lover in 1939, and given a prison sentence.
After his release he was sent to the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he was made to wear a pink triangle denoting LGBT+ prisoners. Working in the camp's health department, with some comrades he attempted to smuggle food to Russian prisoners, who were being starved to death. Their plan was discovered by the N***s, who then sentenced Gorath to transportation to Auschwitz as a criminal and political prisoner, to be denoted with a red triangle.
Despite contracting dysentery, he managed to survive the war and was released in 1945. But within a few months he was arrested again by West German authorities, who had kept the homophobic N**i laws intact. His case was overseen by the same judge, who greeted him with the words "You are already here again!" and gave him the maximum sentence of five years. His lawyer requested that his time served in the concentration camps be counted as part of this, but his request was denied.
After his release, because of his convictions he was unable to get a job for a decade. And when the time came to draw his pension, his years interned in concentration camps were deducted from his allowance, as were his unemployment payments.
He died in 2003, having never received compensation for his treatment, unlike some other Holocaust survivors.
He told his story in a 2000 documentary, "Paragraph 175", named after the relevant section of the penal code.
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This Pride month, take the time to learn more LGBT+ history. E.g. check out our podcast eps 25-26 on the Stonewall rebellion and the origins of Pride, and eps 27-29 which tell the story of Le****ns And G**s Support the Miners during the 1984-5 miners' strike in Britain. Find them on every major podcast app or at https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq