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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 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..."  

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 newspaper articles 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>

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>

The most thorough investigation of the Homocaust myth is Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann’s ''Hidden Holocaust? Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45.'' Written in German, by two historians of Humboldt University Berlin, it has been translated and published in English. <ref> Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann, ''Hidden Holocaust? Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45,'' 1995, translated by Patrick Camiller and published in English ,Routledge, 21 Aug 2013.ISBN-10: 0304329568.</ref> This book examines first-hand documentary evidence and reveals that during the entire Nazi period, the number of people convicted under anti-homosexuality laws was only 5,000 and they were sent to prisons or labour camps, not extermination camps. Half of that 5,000 survived the war. None were deliberately killed, but some died towards the end of the war of harsh conditions, such as cold, starvation and disease. No lesbians were arrested or jailed. So while the hysterical LGBT sites talk about 100,000 or a million victims, professional historians give a figure of 2,500 accidental deaths.  

The most thorough investigation of the Homocaust myth is Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann’s ''Hidden Holocaust? Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45.'' Written in German, by two historians of Humboldt University Berlin, it has been translated and published in English. <ref> Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann, ''Hidden Holocaust? Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45,'' 1995, translated by Patrick Camiller, Routledge, 21 Aug 2013.ISBN-10: 0304329568.</ref> This book examines first-hand documentary evidence and reveals that during the entire Nazi period, the number of people convicted under anti-homosexuality laws was only 5,000 and they were sent to prisons or labor camps, not extermination camps. Half of that 5,000 survived the war. None were deliberately killed, but some died towards the end of the war of harsh conditions, such as cold, starvation and disease. No lesbians were arrested or jailed. So while the LGBT sites talk hysterically about 100,000 or a million victims, professional historians give a figure of 2,500 accidental deaths.  

The bizarre publication history of this book gives some insight into the mentality of the people who spread the Homocaust myth. Although Grau and Shoppmann’s book conclusively refutes the claims that the Nazis carried out any large-scale killing of homosexuals, the blurb of the book on the Routledge website says the opposite. It claims the book upholds LGBT activists’ version of history. The fact that they will go so far as to misrepresent an academic book in order to uphold their false world-view could provide useful evidence for a debate on whether homosexuality is a form of insanity. <ref> https://www.routledge.com/The-Hidden-Holocaust-Gay-and-Lesbian-Persecution-in-Germany-1933-45/Grau-Shoppmann/p/book/9781315073880  

The bizarre publication history of this book gives some insight into the mentality of the people who spread the Homocaust myth. Although Grau and Shoppmann’s book conclusively refutes the claims that the Nazis carried out any large-scale killing of homosexuals, the blurb of the book on the Routledge website says the opposite. It claims the book upholds LGBT activists’ version of history. The fact that they will go so far as to misrepresent an academic book in order to uphold their false world-view could provide useful evidence for a debate on whether homosexuality is a form of insanity. <ref> https://www.routledge.com/The-Hidden-Holocaust-Gay-and-Lesbian-Persecution-in-Germany-1933-45/Grau-Shoppmann/p/book/9781315073880