In collaboration with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and prominent German politicians, this panel explores the incarceration and extermination of German and Austrian gays in Nazi concentration camps, Germany's treatment of gays after World War II, and its eventual decriminalization of homosexuality in 1969. Learn how and why Germany has become one of the world's most progressive nations with regard to GLBT civil rights.

Moderated by Harold Goldman, President, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, with distinguished panelists the Honorable Volker Beck, member of the German Bundestag; Thomas Niederbuehl, Munich City Councilman; Jennifer Evans, Ph.D., Modern German History, Carleton University, Canada; and Geoffrey Giles, Ph.D., European History, University of Florida.

Santorum voted for a law aimed at preventing recognition of same-sex marriages, even though no states allow for it. In contrast, Germany's highest court has affirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry. [More]