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Resource type
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Book/Chapter
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Description/Summary
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Bent was a smash hit play in London and on Broadway when it opened. Bent is about Max, who is gay man in Nazi Germany. Max is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay and gets a yellow label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays). In camp he falls in love with his fellow prisoner Horst, who wears his pink label with pride.
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Additional notes
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Martin Sherman, the Playwright, explains: "People knew about how the Third Reich treated Jews and, to some extent, gypsies and political prisoners. But very little had come out about their treatment of homosexuals." The play, Bent, highlights the reason why - a largely ignored German law, Paragraph 175, making homosexuality a criminal offense, which Hitler reactivated and strengthened during his rise to power.
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Cover graphic file
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Author
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Martin Sherman (Playwright)
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Publication date
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2000
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Publisher/ producer/ broadcaster
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Applause Theatre Book Publishers
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Link to purchase/rental/ viewing
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksea...
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