Paragraph 175 (Exclusive Deal)

When the Allies finally liberated the camps in 1945, Hans expected freedom. Instead, he found a bitter irony. While other prisoners were celebrated as heroes or victims, men convicted under Paragraph 175 were often forced to serve out the remainder of their prison sentences. The new West German government kept the Nazi version of the law on the books.

This is a fictionalized story based on the real historical events and survivors' accounts of , the German law that criminalized sexual relations between men from 1871 to 1994. Paragraph 175

Hans’s world collapsed on a rainy Tuesday in 1937. A neighbor, suspicious of the young men who visited his small apartment, sent an anonymous letter to the Gestapo. It wasn't just gossip; under the new law, it was enough for an arrest. Hans was not given a trial. He was simply processed, his name added to the growing "Pink List," and sent to the Neuengamme concentration camp. When the Allies finally liberated the camps in