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(Berlin) After nearly four years of delays construction will begin this year on a monument to honor gays and lesbians persecuted by the Nazis. Final approval of the design was made on Monday the government announced.
A government committee approved the design by Danish-born Michael Elmgreen and Norwegian native Ingar Dragset last year but until now could not agree on minor changes for the memorial.
It will be a gray concrete slab, with a window allowing visitors to view a film projected inside showing gay men and lesbians kissing.
The statement said that the memorial will be completed later in the year at a cost of slightly over $800,000.
It will sit on the edge of Tiergarten Park near the memorial to the six-million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
The exact number of gay killed by the Nazis may never be known. Adolf Hitler declared homosexuality an aberration that threatened the German race. Some 50,000 homosexuals were convicted and an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 gay men were deported to concentration camps, where few survived.
The Nazi law against homosexuality remained on the books in West Germany until 1969.
In 2002 the German parliament issued a formal pardon for gays convicted under the Nazis.
There also is a monument to gay holocaust victims is in San Francisco.
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/06/060407berlin.htm
A government committee approved the design by Danish-born Michael Elmgreen and Norwegian native Ingar Dragset last year but until now could not agree on minor changes for the memorial.
It will be a gray concrete slab, with a window allowing visitors to view a film projected inside showing gay men and lesbians kissing.
The statement said that the memorial will be completed later in the year at a cost of slightly over $800,000.
It will sit on the edge of Tiergarten Park near the memorial to the six-million Jews who died in the Holocaust.
The exact number of gay killed by the Nazis may never be known. Adolf Hitler declared homosexuality an aberration that threatened the German race. Some 50,000 homosexuals were convicted and an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 gay men were deported to concentration camps, where few survived.
The Nazi law against homosexuality remained on the books in West Germany until 1969.
In 2002 the German parliament issued a formal pardon for gays convicted under the Nazis.
There also is a monument to gay holocaust victims is in San Francisco.
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/06/060407berlin.htm
