Talking about Seel’s traumatic event means to underline the horrors carried out by the Nazis also towards those who were classified as homosexuals.
Il Rosa Nudo focuses above all on a painful and terrible episode that will mark Seel’s emotionality for the rest of his life. At the time of his internment, Seel was only 17 years old. Deported to the Schimerck camp, he witnessed the atrocious death of his companion.
Among the millions of victims affected by the Nazi madness during the Second World War, the French Pierre Seel, on May 13, 1941, was deported by the Germans and interned in the concentration camp of Schirmeck, 30 km from Strasbourg, where he suffered torture and violence because of his sexual orientation. Having survived this terrifying experience, Seel, after the end of the conflict, in an attempt to give new meaning to his life, married and became a father. In 1982, however, he was the first to denounce the terrible events that united him to thousands of other homosexuals, marked like him with the pink triangle: a resounding coming out that added horror to horror. The Naked Rose, taking its cue from his autobiography Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel, tells in a theatrical and evocative way the Holocaust, dwelling also on the scientific theories for the treatment of homosexuality by Carl Peter Veernet, which opened the way to Nazi persecution.
