‘Eldorado’: Netflix Expos the Secret Gay History of Nazi Germany – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

Which didn’t stop burly Hler nfidante and head of the Nazi SA paraary wg Ernst Röhm, a not-terribly-closeted gay man, om equentg the tablishment.

As the film explas, the SA had a strong homoerotic element, a disgt wh women and femy they somehow ed to jtify homosexualy – for a time, anyway. At a certa pot, Röhm’s iendship wh Hler uld only take him so far a Nazi regime creasgly set on eraditg homosexualy. Röhm is but one player this ncise, ftly told doc that the Eldorado as a lnchg pad to a broar story about beg gay Nazi Germany.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

The film never out and yells , but is also a remr of the Fal Solutn tenor that still acpani much anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric and, creasgly, policy. He was also a bohemian spir who had a passnate homosexual relatnship wh Manasse Herbst, a Galician Jewish actor who fled Germany 1936. Hirschfeld, a groundbreakg sexologist, both gay and Jewish and therefore a prime target of Nazi Germany, was thankfully not prent when his stute was ransacked by mardg Nazi youth (here aga, there are photos).

Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175). The Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy between 1933 and 1945. It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.

They also arrted large numbers of gay men unr Paragraph 175. It is important to note that not all of the men arrted and nvicted unr Paragraph 175 intified as gay. Intifyg as a gay man was never explicly crimalized Germany.

THE 10 BEST BERL GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS BERL

However, the Nazi mpaign agast homosexualy and the regime’s zealo enforcement of Paragraph 175 ma life Nazi Germany dangero for gay men. Gay men Germany were not a monolhic group, nor did the Nazi regime view them as such.

Beg gay uld and often did rult persecutn. However, other factors also shaped gay men’s liv durg the Nazi era. This diversy meant that gay men had a wi range of experienc Nazi Germany.