I find it so incredibly frustrating that even articles specifically about LGBTQ+ victims of Nazi persecution frequently fail to acknowledge that they were kept in prison after Nazi Germany fell, because gay sex was a crime and they were just considered criminals rather than victims.
Came here to say this.
It's a bummer that more people don't read any history beyond what their textbooks say, and it's horrifying that these poor people went through the Nazi death camp system and still had to endure prison after WWII, just for consensually fucking another adult.
Plus, the 1948 definition of genocide only qualified racial, ethnic, national and religious groups as possible victims of genocide. LGBTQ people were defined out of the genocide they were suffering. Quite comfy for the Allies back then, and to Holocaust denialists and gender critical ideologists today.
Don't worry. Even while they were drafting the universal declaration of human rights after WW2, which included self-determination (democracy), France (backed by the US) were trying to militarily reassert colonial control over south east Asia and Africa, same with the UK and their control of HK, etc.
They were so prejudiced they couldn't even grant "human rights" to non-whites (like 80% of all living humans).
The queer community is still being forgotten even today. And with attacks on LGBTQ rights on the rise there are still people largely trying to distance the Nazis for being anti LGBTQ. They do this because they know that people still think Nazis are bad (for now at least) so they literally rewrite history to whitewash Nazi crimes against LGBTQ groups. They don't want their Nazi ideas of today being correctly associated with the Nazis.
We sadly live in a world where one of the most popular political commentators online says stuff like "I'm 99% sure the Holocaust happened" and "Well, it's my understanding that they didn't burn the trans literature book because they were trans. It's because the books were written in Jewish".
This is all to disconnect LGBTQ hatred from its Nazi connections.
If you don't know the "political commentator" I'm talking about you're a healthy person without brain rot. So I'll keep it that way.
Absolutely. Tankies are holocaust deniers because of this. They deny that it was a pipeline from a camp to gulag.
They deny that it wasn't?
Yup! Especially on the developer of lemmy owned lemmy.ml
You said "they deny it wasn't just a pipeline-" meaning you think it WAS something else.
Shit, sorry, midnight brain. Will fix.
This is a raised warning finger to the US but MAGAs will not make the connection, only feel offended.
I think we all know which finger, too.
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