Homosexuals of the holocaust
Historians in Germany argue about how universal the historical character of national socialism was. One conservative faction would like to view the communist system as responsible for fascism. This speculation claims that the destruction of social class distinctions by the Bolsheviks prepared the way for racial murders of the Nazis. The extermination of the Jews is presented as a distorted copy of a previous model, rather than as a unique occurrence.


Gay Holocaust
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Gays and Lesbians — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Countries occupied by Germans, with percentage of their Jewish populations killed, and number of victims in parentheses:. March Dachau, the first concentration camp, is opened outside Munich. March Reichstag passes Enabling Act, giving Hitler power to make laws without approval of the parliament. April 1: Semi-official boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany, ignored by many citizens. September Nuremberg Laws issued, depriving Jews of citizenship, prohibiting them from having sexual relations with Aryans, and a variety of other restrictions that removed them from public life.



The Pink Triangle: From Nazi Label to Symbol of Gay Pride
Brownshirted storm troopers raided the institutions and gathering places of homosexuals. While this subculture had flourished in the relative freedom of the s, Nazi tactics greatly weakened it and drove it underground. The revision of Paragraph , however, did not ban sexual acts between women.





The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January They believed that the Germans belonged to a race that was "superior" to all others. They claimed that the Jews belonged to a race that was "inferior" and a threat to the so-called German racial community.
