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Berlin Monument to Gay Holocaust Victims Vandalized

Berlin gay Holocaust memorial

The vandals painted over a window through which visitors can view a video of two men kissing.

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A Berlin monument commemorating gay victims of the Holocaust was vandalized over the weekend.

The monument in Tiergarten Park has a window through which visitors can view a video of two men kissing, the Associated Press reports. Police said Monday that the window had been painted over during the previous night. They have not identified any suspects.

In Nazi Germany, an estimated 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality between 1933 and 1945, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. About 50,000 were incarcerated, most in regular prisons but 5,000 to 15,000 in concentration camps. The number who died in the camps is unknown, but at least one scholar has estimated the death rate at 60 percent.

Last fall a monument to gay Holocaust victims in Tel Aviv, Israel, was defaced with graffiti reading "Death to LGBT."

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.