An author and actor who was imprisoned in 1937 for 27 months for homosexuality. [LCID: 01002]
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Portrait of author and actor Robert T. Odeman

Portrait of Robert T. Odeman, author and actor who was imprisoned in 1937 for 27 months for homosexuality. In 1942, he was deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he was a prisoner for three years. Berlin, Germany, before 1937.

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Sachsenhausen gay men under the Nazis Paragraph 175
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