Between 1933 and 1945 over 100,000 German men were arrested under the infamous ‘Paragraph 175’, a Nazi-modified Prussian law that outlawed homosexuality. As part of the Nazi’s attempt to ‘purify’ German society, gay men were condemned as ‘socially aberrant’ and imprisoned.

Many of those prosecuted were sent to concentration camps where they were to be ‘re-educated’. Survivors have testified that the gay prisoners particularly were severely treated by guards and other categories of inmates alike because of the widespread prejudice against homosexuals in German society.

This exhibition is an installation made in glass and sound. Its title is an ironical name given by inmates to the woods outside the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, north of Berlin, in Germany. The woods were cover for some of the most appalling scenes of the torture and murder of prisoners, the sounds of which echoed throughout the camp