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Gad Beck (Telegraph obit)
Gad Beck, who has died aged 88, was a gay Jew in wartime Berlin, placing him in double jeopardy with the Nazi regime.
Gad Beck, who has died aged 88, was a gay Jew in wartime Berlin, placing him in double jeopardy with the Nazi regime.
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His closest call came in 1942, when his boyfriend, Manfred Lewin, was arrested and held at a detention centre in Berlin.
Clad in an ill-fitting uniform of the Hitler Youth, Beck bluffed his way inside and demanded to speak to the commandant. Having convinced him on some bogus pretext to release Lewin, albeit temporarily, Beck and his friend made their way to the exit.
But Lewin suddenly turned back, refusing to be separated from his parents. The Nazis subsequently deported the entire family to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.
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