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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.  

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..."  

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 Professor Sir Martin Gilbert (Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and acclaimed author of 88 books on WW2) and the late William Shirer (author of the classic ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'', who lived in Berlin during the war) because they take a different view. 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..."  

<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jun/16/research.humanities</ref>

<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jun/16/research.humanities</ref>