![Police maintain watch outside the "Eldorado" nightclub, long frequented by Berlin's homosexual community. [LCID: 74554]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/621d76b2-9490-4cbf-9af9-bbe54fb73615.jpg)
Policemen stand outside the shuttered Eldorado nightclub, long frequented by Berlin's gay and lesbian community. The Nazi government quickly closed the establishment down and pasted pro-Nazi election posters on the building. Berlin, Germany, March 5, 1933.
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