BERLIN – The last known homosexual survivor of Nazi persecution has died aged 98 in France, writes Derek Scally.
Rudolf Brazda, born in Thuringia in 1913, was one of 15,000 gay men to wear the pink triangle in a concentration camp.
He was arrested twice under Nazi-era laws banning homosexuality and, after his second prison sentence in 1941, was sent to the Buchenwald camp. After the war he moved to Alsace and took up French citizenship; in April he was awarded the country’s Legion of Honour.