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According to [[gay rights]] activists, the Nazis targeted [[homosexuals]] during the holocaust. While estimates homosexuality among men hover around 2% (scientists) or 10% (advocates), the percentage of homosexual [[concentration camp]] internees marked with the "pink triangle" was only 0.1%.
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According to [[gay rights]] activists, the Nazis targeted [[homosexuals]] during the holocaust. But according to
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the National Holocaust Museum, "Nazi Germany did not seek to kill all homosexuals."
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[http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/ Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945]
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One source the activists cite as evidence of targeting is the National Holocaust Museum:
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While estimates homosexuality among men hover around 2% (scientists) or 10% (advocates), the percentage of homosexual [[concentration camp]] internees marked with the "pink triangle" was only 0.1%.
*Many other groups were targets of persecution and even murder under the Nazis’ ideology, including Germans with mental and physical disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roma ("Gypsies"), Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war. [http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/]
 
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