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Jul 12, 2007
Quickie Link: 70 Years After Nazi Pogrom, Hamburg Celebrates Gay Pride
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By vanrozenheim
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(Hamburg, Germany) - Thousands of marchers will take part in the Christopher Street Day parade outside a landmark department store in downtown Hamburg in late July -- celebrating the fact that in 2007, Hamburg has a gay mayor and same-sex couples can form legally recognized unions. But few of these marchers will be aware of newly released documents revealing that the Gestapo staged a lightning raid on this very department store 70 years ago this summer, hauling off about 40 store employees on suspicion of being homosexually oriented. Many of those detainees ended up in concentration camps. New documents reveal that almost 55,000 gay men met their deaths in Nazi Germany.
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