The documentary "Paragraph 175" will be shown at 7 tonight at UND Memorial Union Lecture Bowl in conjunction with an exhibit at UND on the Nazi persecution of homosexuals before and during World War II.
The film -- free and open to the public -- looks at the German law that made homosexual acts between males a crime and that was broadened and strengthened under Nazi rule. After the movie, there will be a time for questions and answers.
The New York Times review of "Paragraph 175" called it "at once admirable and deeply unsettling." The film draws on the testimony of a handful of the all-but-vanished ranks of survivors. They relate the horror of the Nazi purge of homosexuals and the aftereffects, the reviewer wrote.
The film is in conjunction with the exhibit, "Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945," which is displayed in the UND Memorial Ballroom (across the hall from the Lecture Bowl) through March 25. It is a traveling exhibit from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. It is sponsored by the UND Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, and co-sponsored by the UND Office of the President, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and The Dakotas.
