'Das Glück kam immer zu mir'

Rudolf Brazda (1913-2011) was probably one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors who were interned in a concentration camp for being gay. Shortly after Hitler came to power, Brazda met his first real love and lived together openly with his boyfriend. Soon after, they were arrested and Brazda eventually got taken to Buchenwald concentration camp. It was his optimism, humour and a lot of luck that let him survive persecution and terror. Alexander Zinn's book combines personal memoir with the history of the persecution of gay people under Nazism.