The Holocaust & Homosexuals

I have always had an interest in persecution of people groups and their ability to continue to thrive and even flourish through their torture.

We, as a people, are extremely intolerant of others who do not think, act, look, worhip and/or behave as we. Most of us are aware, due to much press, of the persecution and torture of many people groups througout history (i.e. Christians, Jews, Blacks in the US, etc). However, recently I discovered that homosexuals in Nazi Germany suffered equal and even harsher treatment than most Jews.

Below are some links of very interesting reading.

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/personalize-gays.html

http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/homo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_gay_men_in_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Holocaust