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Heinrich Rutha
(1897 - 1937) Czechoslovakia

Heinrich Rutha

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Rutha was a youth leader and ideologue for the Sudeten German people (the German minority in Czechoslovakia who wished to gain further autonomy during the 1930's). He was arrested in 1937 by Czech police for homosexual acts, and committed suicide in his prison cell before his trial.

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Source: Cornwall, Mark. Heinrich Rutha and the Unraveling of a Homosexual Scandal in 1930s Czechoslovakia" GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 8 no. 3, pp. 319-347, 2002

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