The gays in the concentration camps were usually workers for the camps as well. Few ever went into teh death camps.
The whole anti-gay NAZI thing was Hitler's. After he snuffed Rohm alot of people thought he did it because ol' Adolf was a pole-smoker as a kid, turning tricks in Austria to make money while he was trying to be an art student.
Rohm's SA was full of gays, most of whon got the knife during kristalnacht.
Well, I'm thinking of all the evidence that exists.
The only evidence we seem to have, of gays being "persecuted" by the National Socialists are those posters, ostensibly posted in places German soldiers stayed, as sort of way to teach them how to identify prisoners; the yellow star, the black star, the pink star (or triangle), whatnot.
One looks in vain for posters and publications and speeches decrying the gays in Germany, while of course archives are clogged with posters and publications and copies of speeches denouncing the Jews, eastern Europeans, Russians, gypsies, whatnot.
If there ever were such things, I'm sure the gay lobby would've unearthed them by now.
And so given the culture of Germany at the time (tolerant or indifferent of gays), I'm inclined to think those given the pink star, or pink triangle, were a sort of "miscellaneous." The National Socialists had to identify and categorize "enemies of the state," but some didn't fit any certain given definition.
Take, for example, a case of a blond-haired blue-eyed "Aryan" of Christian derivation with a Teutonic pedigree going back several hundred years, who hadn't committed any crime (felony or "against the state"), but was sent to the camps anyway.
The National Socialists were capricious in their judgements, and probably trainloads of people went to the camps based simply on the caprice of a local
gautlier or something; they just didn't like the guy, and had the power to send him away.
But he had to be identified and categorized as
something.The antics of the gay Julius Streicher are well-known; that he got tumescent over whipping teenaged boys, and that he had the power to do so.
Well, after the gay Julius Streicher shot his wad, and if the lad still lived, what was to be done with him? Of course, sent to the camps. But as what?
This is what makes the gay lobby's current attempts to gain the same degree of martyrdom as Jews and eastern Europeans so ludicrous. There is no comparison, no comparison at all, It's not even the difference between an elephant and an ear-mite.
And ditto for the martyrdom of gays, as compared with what blacks in this country endured up to November 4, 2008; the "sufferings" of gays in America never came close to what those of African derivation suffered in this country until three days ago.
