"The happiness always came to me" tells the moving life story of Rudolf Brazda, one of the last witnesses to the persecution of homosexuals during the National Socialist regime. Born in 1913, Brazda experienced his coming out shortly before the Nazis came to power and found happiness for a brief time in his first great love. However, arrests and deportation to the Buchenwald concentration camp soon followed. Despite the brutal circumstances, he survived thanks to his unbroken humor and optimism. Alexander Zinn connects the personal biography with the historical examination of the persecution of homosexuals, which is still often insufficiently acknowledged today. This book is not only a testament to the past but also a call for tolerance and understanding in the present.