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Pierre Seel; A Call to Action
AN EDUCATIONAL LECTURE CHANNEL
Basic Information about Pierre Seel
A Quote from the Survivor himself.
Historical Context and Importance to LGBTQ+ History
Basic Information
Pierre Seel was a gay man who lived in France during the Nazi regime. He was found to be homosexual, and experienced torture at the hand of Nazis. He was the first French man to testify that homosexuals were genocided by the Nazis.
Pierre Seel [12]
“I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries.”
HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
Paragraph 175 of the German government was a law that had prohibited homosexuality between men in German states. It did not apply to sexual acts between women.
Pierre Seel Antique Image [13]
IMPORTANCE TO LGBTQ+ HISTORY
Seel actively combated the erasure of the slaughter of homosexual people in France, and testified despite attempted censorship by the French government. Seel was a person who advocated for the reclamation of the pink triangle. Without Seel's testimony, the torture of gay French Men may have been erased from the Porajmos/Holocaust
