Berlin - The small number of homosexuals still alive who survived Nazi concentration camps were urged yesterday to file claims for compensation organised by an aid agency. The Geneva-based International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it estimates there are about 100 homosexuals still alive who survived the camps or slave labour regiments during the Third Reich.
Historians say some 50,000 homosexual men were imprisoned by Nazi courts for their sexual orientation and around 5,000 were sent to concentration camps for "re-education through work".