Nazi Honey Traps.

Berlin, famous for its LGBT nightlife, especially during the 1930s Weimar Republic era; painted so vividly in Bob Fosse's 1972 film 'Cabaret' holds a warning in its history.

Humans are social creatures, and the LGBT community is no exception. We all need people, which is why solitary confinement is still used as a punishment in prisons today.

In their moral crusade, the Nazis planned to imprison and exterminate the LGBT community. However, the problem of identifying those who were LGBT was less straightforward.

Ingeniously, the Nazis used the power of loneliness to track down their targets and so began a steady campaign of closing down LGBT bars and clubs whilst purposefully allowing some to remain open so that they could covertly monitor the incoming and outgoing clientele.

Thus the familiar journey to a favourite bar or club, to forget one's troubles and connect with life, where friends and kin welcomed you into the fold became an inadvertent walk to the death camps. Bars and clubs became Nazi honey traps.

Thousands of LGBT citizens were used as slave labour and sent to prisons or death camps. The pink triangle remains a symbol of Nazi persecution, but I have no doubt, should fascism rear its ugly head in the future, the same tactics will be used again, but this time the honey traps will not just be physical but cyber.