Otto Giering died in 1976, a few months before his 60th birthday. ![]() "The police found him confused and disoriented," the book says. Later, his application for compensation was rejected, and he did not come home for days and was reported missing. In 2015, the German Historical Museum and the Gay Museum in Berlin showed photos of prisoners in the Auschwitz extermination camp Image: imago/epd Otto Giering survived the ordeals, but his health was ruined: "Due to the concentration camp imprisonment he had heart problems, stomach problems, suffered from headaches and migraines," the book recounts. The harrowing story of the Hamburg-born journeyman tailor can be read in the book "Medicine and Crime," published by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, to which the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial and museum belongs. ![]() Even before his deportation to the concentration camp, the 22-year-old had been convicted twice for homosexual contact and sent to a labor camp. "Now you're a gay pig and you've lost your balls." That was how Otto Giering was taunted by a guard in August 1939 after his forced castration in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
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