The Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism in Berlin was opened on 27 May 2008.
The Memorial was designed by artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset.
The Cuboid is made of concrete. On the front side of the cuboid is a window, through which visitors can see a short film of two kissing men. The work is the third of its kind in Germany following Frankfurter Engel (1994) in Frankfurt and Kölner Rosa Winkel (1995) in Cologne.
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The Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism in Berlin was opened on 27 May 2008.
The Memorial was designed by artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset.
The Cuboid is made of concrete. On the front side of the cuboid is a window, through which visitors can see a short film of two kissing men. The work is the third of its kind in Germany following Frankfurter Engel (1994) in Frankfurt and Kölner Rosa Winkel (1995) in Cologne.
The memorial was discussed by all parties in the Bundestag, which granted permission in 2003.
Near the memorial is a signboard, which is written in German and English. There visitors can read over persecutions during Nazism and under Paragraph 175, the law during 1950s and 1960s that outlawed homosexuality. It was reformed in 1969 and fully repealed in 1973.
The homosexual victims of Nazism were not officially recognized after 1945. During 1950s and 1960s, Paragraph 175 was still part of the German penal code. In the 1980s, these "forgotten victims" were...
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