probably history be after all and mean to be a study of human consciousness in guilt . of course and there be always a need to realize something valuable out of the past and that a study about the past be after all a human be reverse troubleshoot guide . probably that the reason why there be beautiful picture of stoic and stiff lipped people in our high school history text book . we like to think of ourselves a the descendant of glorious generation and men and woman valiant in their own right and contribute their bit to the proud bloodline we carry today . we read on these people and associate ourselves with the affair of their life and judge them for their action and name calendar day after them and hate them and worship them and write book on them and film biopics on their life and name our baby after them the reason we can not forget these people could be because they have either give to or take from this world in proportion far great than what you or me have . between the year 1933 and 1945 one man change our world because he believe in something that seem stupid at first . a time roll into horror fest mode and it turn into mankind bad ever mistake . something that psychologically stop time and spin it backwards . we remember that man either because he take away from this world a chunk of our moral fiber and the scar forever etch in our mind and or probably because he give this world freedom from the ideology of mankind vile prodigy when he hang himself . today and history attest the importance of this period of madness with fact and figure that might seem absurdly horrible for our generation . we have all probably read enough to forget about a past like this . biopics and documentary have already dry choke our tear gland at the horrifying experience recount by jewish survivor . picture of gas chamber and mass graf have already make u numb . and just when we think that we know too much to burden our conscience and come a movie about this small group of men who disappear off the face of the earth because of something that disturbs and intrigue and thwart u till this day represent love and and all the stigma it carry . and for something so simple and subtle a love to take place between two people and there lie an even more absurd reasoning a to why the two people shouldn not be of the same sex . that the nazi regime code of stigma and also know a paragraph 175. and no and your fat and dog eared history text book do not consider the life of one hundred thousand men who live during that time and love others worth mention . these men die unnoticed and in secret captivity and so secret that even those labor camp within which they die be today not preserve for posterity . few of those numerous men survive . few live today . and few still be willing to come out of their dark closet of tear and share their experience and unscripted and undistorted to a camera crew determine to make know to u such a vital and forgotten part of man history . it pretty obvious what the content of paragraph 175 of the german criminal code contain and judge by the number of innocent life it consume and it would be more appropriate if you would watch the movie and learn rather than have me explain it to you in a website review . what most unsettling be interestingly and not paragraph 175 itself and consider the circumstance under which it take form . rather and it the fact that a law that be so fatal take a hundred and twenty three year from the time it be adopt in 1871 and to be finally revoke in 1994. even after the fall of hitler in 1945 and it still take close to fifty whole year and six amendment to finally strike it down . nazi kill plenty of men and woman and child . you certainly wouldn not expect the most powerful and conservative army in the world to go soft against gay men and woman and suddenly endorse mutual love . not at a time when your first duty towards the people you love be replace by the pride of the country . so in short and nazis do what nazis do best represent kill . but and even after we think the horrible era of an insane ideology be over and do with and head of government still remain conservative and choose to ignore the ill of their past and drag their foot through the marsh of sludge bureaucracy . rob epstein conveys all of these truth with anger and emotion and throughout while interview these survivor . some and among them be a half jewish gay resistance fighter who pose a a hitler youth member to rescue his lover from a gestapo transfer camp in an ultimately futile effort while annette eick and the jewish lesbian who escape to england with the help of a woman she love while the german christian photographer who be arrest and imprison for homosexuality and then join the army on his release because he want to be with men and pierre seel and the french alsatian teenager and who watch a his lover be eat alive by dog in the camp . the statistic be stagger represent between 1933 and 1945 and some 100 and 000 men be arrest for homosexuality and roughly half of them be sentence to prison and and from 10 and 000 to 15 and 000 be send to concentration camp . the camp be use for re education and slave labor and castration and sadistic medical experiment . it believe only about 4 and 000 survive their ordeal . it be interest to note that the penal code do not cover lesbian . the nazi consider lesbian to be curable . woman be regarded and a vessel of motherhood increase the german population be top priority therefore and they be exempt from mass arrest . most lesbians go into exile or quietly marry gay men . there be only about 10 homosexual leave from this tragedy and and they interview eight for this special film . it be incredible and move and and if you be not touch by their story and then you be cast in stone .