The Nazi Era: Episode 1: Prologue

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

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Host Eric Marcus welcomes listeners to MGH’s “Nazi Era” series by going back in time to 1980 and a darkened Broadway theater where his interest in LGBTQ Holocaust history was kindled. Join Eric as we embark on a 12-episode journey and honor Holocaust Remembrance Day. Visit our episode webpage for a transcript of the episode. For exclusive Making Gay History bonus content, join our Patreon community. ——— -1993 interview with Pierre Seel courtesy of Là-Bas Si J'y Suis. -RG-50.030.0019, oral history interview with Frieda Belinfante, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. For more information about the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, go here. -Lucy Salani footage courtesy of Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini, directors of C'è un soffio di vita soltanto (2021), produced by Blue Mirror and Kimerafilm, distributed by True Colours. ——— To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.1	I'm Eric Marcus, and this is Making Gay History.
1:03.0	Music It's January 1980.
1:21.6	I'm on winter break from my final semester at Vassar College,
1:25.6	and I'm sitting in a darkened Broadway theater
1:28.3	watching two exhausted-looking young men
1:31.3	carry large rocks back and forth across the stage.
1:35.3	They don't touch, don't even look at each other,
1:39.3	but they're falling in love.
1:41.3	Two gay concentration camp inmates persecuted by the Nazis because of who they are.
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