Posted by:
MJ
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Date: June 01, 2012 12:53PM
This years bit on gay history takes some guts to read all the way through.
Treatment of gays and lesbians in Nazi Germany:
http://homocaust.org/One of the things that makes me particularly angry "Gays were treated with particular contempt not only the SS but also by many of the other inmates, who regarded them as degenerate perverts. Life in the camps was a solitary existence making it hard to survive mentally for any period of time. In the face of such hatred and degradation, it is no surprise that many committed suicide by running into electric perimeter fences rather than face ongoing persecution."
When Jews talk about being persecuted during WWII, I can only think: "During that time many Jews were, at the same time, both persecuted and persecutors." It is not what many Jews want to hear