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Behind the Aegis

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1. It was YEARS after the first memorials before gays were acknowledged as victims.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2023, 05:44 PM

Jan 2023

At Dachau, there is a memorial within the grounds. It has all the triangles used, except the pink triangle, which was used to signify gay men. In Berlin, the gay memorial is an insult. A plain slab, no signage, with a video inside for 2minutes of gay people kissing. I was in tears when I left, not out of sorrow, but out of rage.

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Germany recalls overlooked LGBT victims of Nazi persecution [View all] Eugene Jan 2023 OP

It was YEARS after the first memorials before gays were acknowledged as victims. Behind the Aegis Jan 2023 #1

This in no way takes away from the Jewish community's holocaust. Lunabell Jan 2023 #2

But it isn't interesting, that much of Holocaust denial ONLY revolves around the Jews. Behind the Aegis Jan 2023 #4

I think it's because their numbers were much larger. Lunabell Jan 2023 #6

There is quite a bit of denial against Trans victims too LostOne4Ever Jan 2023 #8

I think perhaps it's only fairly recently that pop media began to talk about anyone else? NullTuples Jan 2023 #10

When the camps were liberated, LGBT prisoners were moved to prisons instead of being set free. NullTuples Jan 2023 #3

This is a piece of Holocaust history many don't know. Behind the Aegis Jan 2023 #5

Lesbians were mostly treated as innocents thanks to patriarchy & trans women as gay men. NullTuples Jan 2023 #7

Gender Criticals/ TERFs use this to deny trans victims constantly LostOne4Ever Jan 2023 #9