![]() ![]() The commandant appeared with his entire general staff. Surrounded by SS men, we had to form a square and stand at attention, as we did for morning roll call. ![]() ![]() Shouts and yells urged us to get there without delay. One day the loudspeakers ordered us to report immediately to the roll-call site. It happened during my earliest weeks in the camp and contributed more than anything else to making me a silent, obedient shadow among the others. But I've put off describing the worst ordeal I suffered. I spent six months, from May to November 1941, in that place, where horror and savagery were the law. Seel’s account of his suffering and his plea for justice are heartrending in their dignified restraint, even though Seel had himself been tortured and raped with a wooden pole by the Nazis.īelow is an excerpt from his book, which has been translated into German, Spanish and English. In it, he publicly airs the long-overlooked tragedy of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals. In ' I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror' (1995), Seel narrated his story to Jean Le Bitoux, a French writer, journalist and gay activist. ![]()
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