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The term “'''Homocaust'''” derived from "Holocaust" refers to the claims made by [[LGBT]] extremists that thousands or millions of [[homosexuals]] were exterminated by the [[Nazis]] in Germany under [[Adolf Hitler]]. This theory is false, it originated among activists who are not historians, and has been conclusively refuted by academic historians. Nevertheless it continues to proliferate in the popular and [[liberal]] (leftwing) media, supported by a range of unsound evidence, and defended by the vigorous abuse of any who dare to disagree.  

The term “'''Homocaust'''” derived from "Holocaust" refers to the claims made by [[LGBT]] extremists that thousands or millions of [[homosexuals]] were exterminated by the [[Nazis]] in Germany under [[Adolf Hitler]]. This theory is false, it originated among activists who are not historians, and has been conclusively refuted by academic historians. Nevertheless it continues to proliferate in the popular and [[liberal]] (leftwing) media, supported by a range of unsound evidence, and defended by the vigorous abuse of any who dare to disagree.  

The claims were first put forward by '''Rüdiger Lautmann'''(b.1935), a German homosexual /pedophile activist. Lautmann is not a historian, merely a lecturer in sociology at the University of Bremen, who has spent much of his career campaigning to legalise pedophilia. He founded ''Selbsthilfegruppe Paedophilie'', and has gone all over Europe making speeches in favour of adult-child sex.<ref>http://www.dijg.de/paedophilie-kindesmissbrauch/normalisierung-allianzen-lobby/</ref><ref> https://www.aliceschwarzer.de/artikel/die-gruenen-und-die-paedophilie-311659</ref><ref>http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-9085624.html</ref> Lautmann alleged that the Nazis had rounded up a million homosexuals and sent them to be exterminated in concentration camps. His claims were taken up by the British homosexual/pedophile campaigner [[Peter Tatchell]] who is also not a historian, and has no qualifications in research of any kind. He has a BA in sociology from a polytechnic. Tatchell used his website and his columns in newspaper to promulgate the myth and make it fashionable. These activists found the myth useful because it enabled them to portray homosexuals as victims. The names of various Jewish homosexuals who had been sent to concentration camps were placed on the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and similar sites of a popular, emotive nature to give a misleading impression that the inmates were there because they were homosexual rather than because they were Jewish. <ref> http://www.ushmm.org/</ref>  

The claims were first put forward by '''Rüdiger Lautmann'''(b.1935), a German homosexual /pedophile activist. Lautmann is not a historian, merely a lecturer in sociology at the University of Bremen, who has spent much of his career campaigning to legalise pedophilia. He founded ''Selbsthilfegruppe Paedophilie'', and has gone all over Europe making speeches in favour of adult-child sex.<ref>http://www.dijg.de/paedophilie-kindesmissbrauch/normalisierung-allianzen-lobby/</ref><ref> https://www.aliceschwarzer.de/artikel/die-gruenen-und-die-paedophilie-311659</ref><ref>http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-9085624.html</ref> Lautmann alleged that the Nazis had rounded up a million homosexuals and sent them to be exterminated in concentration camps.  

 

His claims were taken up by the British homosexual/pedophile campaigner [[Peter Tatchell]] who is also not a historian, and has no qualifications in research of any kind. He has a BA in sociology from a polytechnic. Tatchell used his website and his columns in newspaper to promulgate the myth and make it fashionable. In 2001 Tatchell denounced some of the leading historians of World War II because they did not subscribe to the Homocaust myth. He denounced Sir Martin Gilbert and the late Sir William Shirer who both disagree with him. As evidence Tatchell offered a film Paragraph 175, about homosexual survivors of the Nazi era, which hardly supported the view that they had been exterminated. Many of those featured were in fact Jewish. In reply to Tatchell's claims, the expert historian Efraim Zuroff, of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem, defended Sir Martin and said: "The word Holocaust refers to the specific Nazi intention to annihilate the Jews, and only the Jews. No other group of people was singled out in this way to be systematically wiped out..."

 

Nevertheless LGBT activists found the myth useful because it enabled them to portray homosexuals as victims. The names of various Jewish homosexuals who had been sent to concentration camps were placed on the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and similar sites of a popular, emotive nature to give a misleading impression that the inmates were there because they were homosexual rather than because they were Jewish. <ref> http://www.ushmm.org/</ref>  

These fallacies are exaggerated and sensationalized still further on the Homocaust website<ref>www.homocaust.com</ref> produced by British LGBT campaigners who are not historians. They encourage the belief that lesbians were sent to gas chambers, when the fact is that lesbianism has never been illegal at any time in German history and the only examples they can quote are Jewish women such as Henny Schermann, who was gassed at Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1942, because she was a Jew.  

These fallacies are exaggerated and sensationalized still further on the Homocaust website<ref>www.homocaust.com</ref> produced by British LGBT campaigners who are not historians. They encourage the belief that lesbians were sent to gas chambers, when the fact is that lesbianism has never been illegal at any time in German history and the only examples they can quote are Jewish women such as Henny Schermann, who was gassed at Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1942, because she was a Jew.  

The Homocaust theory is promulgated uncritically by such unreliable sources as Wikipedia and http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/homosexuals-and-nazi-germany/

The Homocaust theory is promulgated uncritically by such unreliable sources as [[Wikipedia]] and http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/homosexuals-and-nazi-germany/

These articles are not the work of professional historians. The websites offer blatant falsehood.

These articles are not the work of professional historians. The websites offer blatant falsehood.

Several books by professional historians have challenged the myth. One is ''The Third Reich at War'' by Richard J. Evans, which gives a balanced view, revealing that most of the Nazis’ rhetoric against homosexuals was just that  - rhetoric – and while a small number of male homosexuals were given prison sentences, Himmler frequently commuted them so that they could be sent into the army instead. ''The Routledge History of the Holocaust'' by Jonathan C. Friedman, reveals that although the death penalty applied to homosexual behavior among German army and SS officers, it did not apply to anyone else, and even in the SS it was rarely carried out. “Often the SS chief would relent and commute the sentence, if he could persuade himself that the guilty man was not a real homosexual, but had suffered a momentary lapse, especially under the influence of alcohol.”  <ref>''The Third Reich at War'' by Richard J. Evans, Penguin Books, 2010. ''The Routledge History of the Holocaust'' by Jonathan C. Friedman (Routledge, 2010, p.394. </ref>

Several books by professional historians have challenged the myth. One is ''The Third Reich at War'' by Richard J. Evans, which gives a balanced view, revealing that most of the Nazis’ rhetoric against homosexuals was just that  - rhetoric – and while a small number of male homosexuals were given prison sentences, Himmler frequently commuted them so that they could be sent into the army instead. ''The Routledge History of the Holocaust'' by Jonathan C. Friedman, reveals that although the death penalty applied to homosexual behavior among German army and SS officers, it did not apply to anyone else, and even in the SS it was rarely carried out. “Often the SS chief would relent and commute the sentence, if he could persuade himself that the guilty man was not a real homosexual, but had suffered a momentary lapse, especially under the influence of alcohol.”  <ref>''The Third Reich at War'' by Richard J. Evans, Penguin Books, 2010. ''The Routledge History of the Holocaust'' by Jonathan C. Friedman (Routledge, 2010, p.394. </ref>