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==Origin==

==Origin==

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 argues that pedophilia is harmless. He founded ''Selbsthilfegruppe Paedophilie'', and has gone all over Europe making speeches on this topic.<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''' (born 1935), a German homosexual/pedophile activist. Lautmann is not a historian, merely a lecturer in sociology at the University of Bremen, who argues that pedophilia is harmless. He founded ''Selbsthilfegruppe Paedophilie'', and has gone all over Europe making speeches on this topic.<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.

==Proliferation to the UK==

==Proliferation to the UK==

==Spread on internet==

==Spread on internet==

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>  

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>http://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.

==Myth challenged==

==Myth challenged==

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>

==Myth refuted conclusively==

==Myth refuted conclusively==

==Misrepresentation tactics and methods==

==Misrepresentation tactics and methods==

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  

The Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45, Günter Grau, Claudia Shoppmann - History - 2013 - 336 pages "The persecution of lesbians and gay men by the Nazis is a subject that has been constantly debated during the last decade, providing a theme for books, articles, and plays. Until recently the discussion has remained speculative: most of the relevant documents were stored in closed East German archives, and access was denied to scholars and researchers. As a result of the unification of East and West Germany, these archives are now open. Hidden Holocaust, by the German scholars Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann of Humboldt University, Berlin, demonstrates that the eradication of homosexuals was a declared goal of the Nazis even before they took power in 1933, and provide proof of

The Hidden Holocaust?: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45, Günter Grau, Claudia Shoppmann - History - 2013 - 336 pages "The persecution of lesbians and gay men by the Nazis is a subject that has been constantly debated during the last decade, providing a theme for books, articles, and plays. Until recently the discussion has remained speculative: most of the relevant documents were stored in closed East German archives, and access was denied to scholars and researchers. As a result of the unification of East and West Germany, these archives are now open. Hidden Holocaust, by the German scholars Gunter Grau and Claudia Shoppmann of Humboldt University, Berlin, demonstrates that the eradication of homosexuals was a declared goal of the Nazis even before they took power in 1933, and provide proof of

the systematic anti-gay campaigns, the methods used to justify discrimination, and the incarceration mutilation and murder of gay men and women in Nazi concentration camps. A chilling but ground-breaking work in gay and lesbian studies."</ref>

the systematic anti-gay campaigns, the methods used to justify discrimination, and the incarceration mutilation and murder of gay men and women in Nazi concentration camps. A chilling but ground-breaking work in gay and lesbian studies."</ref>

This misleading blurb is reproduced on Google books and elsewhere, perpetuating the fallacy and giving it bogus academic respectability.<ref> https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hidden-holocaust-gunter-grau/1115919998?type=eBook</ref>

This misleading blurb is reproduced on Google books and elsewhere, perpetuating the fallacy and giving it bogus academic respectability.<ref>https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hidden-holocaust-gunter-grau/1115919998?type=eBook</ref>

==Faked photographs==

==Faked photographs==