Desire (1990)

Sexuality in Germany from 1910 to 1945 beginning with backtonature mountain camps and schools that fused athleticism samesex intimacy and nudity the openlygay bars during the Weimer Republic and Nazi suppression of male and female homosexuality Historians discuss pedagogical Eros Hirschfelds theories and his institute of sexual science and the Nazis Paragraph 175 which outlawed homosexual behavior Survivors describe intimidation and interrogation the flight of friends Himmlers edicts and the confinement and death in concentration camps of gay men and women The documentary ends at Amsterdams monument to gay victims of the Holocaust