Police maintain watch outside the "Eldorado" nightclub, long frequented by Berlin's homosexual community. [LCID: 74554]
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Police maintain watch outside the Eldorado nightclub, long frequented by Berlin's gay and lesbian community.

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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  • Landesarchiv Berlin

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