Albrecht
Becker after meeting
his first lover in 1924 at age 18 in a small German village.
Photo courtesy of Schwules Museum, Berlin
Albrecht
Becker (born 1906) at his home in Hamburg with a self-portrait
from the 50s. After the War, he became an art director in
the German film industry.
Albrecht
Becker (born 1906) served a three-year prison term for
homosexuality before joining the German army in 1940.
Pierre
Seel, born 1923 in Alsace-Lorraine, was 17 when the
Nazis occupied his homeland. He was arrested and interrogated
about his homosexuality before being sent to the internment
camp at Schirmeck.
Albrecht
Becker (left), age 20, with friends at the beach in Venice,
Italy in 1926.
(Schwules Museum, Berlin)
Annette
Eick came from a non-religious Jewish family in Berlin.
She was active in lesbian cultural life in the 1920's, and
managed to escape to England with the help of an older woman
she had met at a bar and had a crush on.
