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Wilhelm Heckmann, the Glossary

Wilhelm Heckmann (26 June 1897 – 10 March 1995) was a German concert and easy listening musician.^[1]

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German gay musicians
LGBT concentration camp survivors
People convicted under Germany's Paragraph 175

Altena

Altena (Westphalian: Altenoa) is a town in the district of Märkischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Dachau concentration camp

Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest running one, opening on 22 March 1933.

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Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany.

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Degenerate music

Degenerate music (Entartete Musik) was a label applied in the 1930s by the government of Nazi Germany to certain forms of music that it considered harmful or decadent.

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Dortmund

Dortmund (Düörpm; Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany.

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Easy listening

Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

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The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gestapo

The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

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Gotha

Gotha is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000.

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Hans Maršálek

Hans Maršálek (19 July 1914 – 9 December 2011) was an Austrian typesetter, political activist, detective, historian, and suspected spy for the Soviet Union. Wilhelm Heckmann and Hans Maršálek are Mauthausen concentration camp survivors.

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust.

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Imperial German Army

The Imperial German Army (1871–1919), officially referred to as the German Army (Deutsches Heer), was the unified ground and air force of the German Empire.

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Kapo

A kapo or prisoner functionary (Funktionshäftling) was a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the Schutzstaffel (SS) guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.

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Mauthausen concentration camp

Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Nazi concentration camps

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Paragraph 175

Paragraph 175 (known formally as; also known as Section 175 in English) was a provision of the German Criminal Code from 15 May 1871 to 10 March 1994.

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Passau

Passau (Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany.

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Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany

Before 1933, male homosexual acts were illegal in Germany under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code.

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Pierre Seel

Pierre Seel (16 August 1923 – 25 November 2005) was a gay Holocaust survivor who was conscripted into the German Army and the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation during World War II due to his homosexuality. Wilhelm Heckmann and Pierre Seel are LGBT concentration camp survivors.

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Pink triangle

A pink triangle has been a symbol for the LGBT community, initially intended as a badge of shame, but later reappropriated as a positive symbol of self-identity.

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Protective custody

Protective custody (PC) is a type of imprisonment (or care) to protect a person from harm, either from outside sources or other prisoners.

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Rheydt

Rheydt is a borough of the German city Mönchengladbach, located in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Rudolf Brazda

Rudolf Brazda (26 June 1913 – 3 August 2011) was the last known concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality. Wilhelm Heckmann and Rudolf Brazda are 20th-century German LGBT people, LGBT concentration camp survivors and People convicted under Germany's Paragraph 175.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Heckmann

Wilhelm Heckmann, the Glossary

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See also

German gay musicians

LGBT concentration camp survivors

People convicted under Germany's Paragraph 175

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