Frankfurter Engel

Daran erinnern wir in dem Bewusstsein, dass Männer, die Männer lieben, und Frauen, die Frauen lieben, immer wieder verfolgt werden können.

Dezember 1994This can be translated to English as: Homosexual men and women were persecuted and murdered in Nazi Germany.

The crimes were denied, the dead concealed, the survivors scorned and prosecuted.

December 1994.The memorial honors homosexuals who were persecuted and/or died during the Nazi rule and Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code that outlawed homosexuality during the 1950s and 1960s.

Ultimately, the winner of the competition was the artist Rosemarie Trockel, and the memorial was built at the crossing of the streets Schäfergasse and Alte Gasse.