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Homosexuals and the Holocaust (view source)
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According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Nazi Germany did not seek to kill all homosexuals. . . [but] the Nazi state, through active persecution, attempted to terrorize German homosexuals into sexual and social conformity".<ref name=USHMM>
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Nazi Germany did not seek to kill all homosexuals. . . [but] the Nazi state, through active persecution, attempted to terrorize German homosexuals into sexual and social conformity".<ref name=USHMM>
[http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945]</ref>
[http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945]</ref>
==Homosexual Nazis==
[[File:Pink swastika.png|right|200px|thumb|''The Pink Swastika'']]
In his book, "The Pink Swastika," Lively<!--does lively have a first name?--> claims that although the Nazis did persecute homosexuals, the homosexuals the Nazis persecuted were almost exclusively the effeminate members of the gay community in Germany, and that much of the mistreatment was administered by masculine homosexuals who despised effeminacy in all its forms.<ref>http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fischer/080515 The truth about homosexuality and the Nazi Party</ref> As he pointed out, 85% of Nazi homosexuals were of the Butches faction while the other 15% were of the Femmes faction, and as the Butches persecuted the Femmes, today's LGBT movement is not monolithic either as they claim that drag queens offend the transgender.
==Nazi treatment of homosexuals==
==Nazi treatment of homosexuals==
*The Nazis shut down the two or three active Gay political organizations that had been operating in German (sic) as soon as Hitler took power in 1933. However, according to Fout, Gay bars and bathhouses remained open until the late 1930s.... ‘The Gay urban subculture survived the Nazi period,’ said Fout.<ref>[http://www.abidingtruth.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm Researcher says Nazi persecution not systematic] - The Washington Blade, May 22, 1998</ref>
*The Nazis shut down the two or three active Gay political organizations that had been operating in German (sic) as soon as Hitler took power in 1933. However, according to Fout, Gay bars and bathhouses remained open until the late 1930s.... ‘The Gay urban subculture survived the Nazi period,’ said Fout.<ref>[http://www.abidingtruth.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm Researcher says Nazi persecution not systematic] - The Washington Blade, May 22, 1998</ref>
Generally, the classification of Homosexual was added after the arrival in camp, and was the cause of arrest. Most were arrested as shirkers of their nation duty in wartime.
== See also ==
== See also ==