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Karl Gorath

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Because of his medical training, Gorath was transferred to work at a prisoner hospital in a sub-camp of Neuengamme. When he refused to decrease the bread ration for patients who were
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After the war, in 1947 he was sentenced again: “By the same Judge. Rabien his name was. He received me in the courtroom with the words: ‘You are here again!’”
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Gorath was training for a nursing career when, at 26, he was denounced as a homosexual by his "jealous lover" and arrested under
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of the criminal code, which defined homosexuality as an "unnatural act".
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Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
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Gorath is one of six gay men who are the subject of a
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Index

Bad Zwischenahn
Lower Saxony
Germany
Bremerhaven
Bremen
Red Army
Conviction(s)
Homosexuality
Neuengamme
Auschwitz
Bad Zwischenahn
Bremerhaven
gay
homosexuality
Neuengamme
Auschwitz
Paragraph 175
Hamburg
pink triangle
transvestite
Poles
political prisoner
Red Army
documentary
Nazi
Jeffrey Friedman
Rob Epstein
Rupert Everett
Paragraph 175
Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

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