Ghost of a flea

This only took sixty years

Tens of thousands of homosexuals killed or persecuted by the Nazi regime are to be commemorated in a central memorial in Berlin under plans announced by Germany's centre-left coalition on Wednesday.

This Reuters article fails to mention some important details. Gay men were subject to medical experimentation and castration in Nazi Germany as part of the same insane eugenics project which rationalized the Holocaust. With the end of the war, gay concentration camp prisoners were transferred to Allied prisons because they remained criminals under German law. Imagine, for a moment, the spectre of the rest of Hitler's victims being transferred from one camp to another with Allied victory. The law under which they were imprisoned remained German law until 1969.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 3, 2003 10:28 AM