Germany recalls overlooked LGBT victims of Nazi persecution

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

Only in the last decade have I seen much if any mention of how many of the practical public relations aspects of trying to eradicate Jews from the face of the planet were prototyped and honed using first disabled and autistic people, then criminals (including gay men as per German law at the time), and then when everything was ready and the general public had been stirred into a frenzy of antisemitism, Jews. It makes sense when one considers the numbers and the chance that someone would know an individual in the affected groups, which was relatively slight, and be willing to stand up for them. They were simply seen as disposable, or as they were termed at the time, "useless mouths" who contributed little to society and drained the economy. Terrifying when you consider that this indicates just how much careful preparation and consideration went into killing and harming so many other human beings.