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. | 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. |