During this year’s Holocaust commemorations in Berlin, the German parliament, for the first time, dedicated the remembrance to those killed by Nazis because of their gender identity and sexual orientation. The body also acknowledged decades of post-World War II persecution against LGBTQ+ people in Germany.
For more than 20 years, activists have worked to establish an official ceremony for LGBTQ+ Nazi victims.
The president of the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, Bärbel Bas, said LGBTQ+ survivors of the Third Reich had to wait a very long time for recognition.
Imprisoned gay men were murdered, castrated, or used in horrendous medical experiments in concentration camps. At these camps, thousands of lesbians, transgender people, and sex workers were detained under brutal conditions and branded “degenerates.”
Germany toughened its laws regarding sex between men in 1935 and sentenced violators to ten years of forced labor.
Between 6,000 and 10,000 of the nearly 60,000 men imprisoned for violations of this law were sent to concentration camps and forced to wear pink triangle-adorned uniforms.
In addition to thousands of gay men killed under brutal conditions, historians believe countless transgender and lesbian people also died.
Germany Recognizes LGBTQ+ Holocaust ‘Pink Triangle’ Victims For First Time Ever
- Dr. Tai Houser
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