Homosexuality has been around for many years. Dating back to Socrates, DaVinci, Caesar, Lord Byron, Donatello, and Michelangelo all having romantic or sexual relationships with the same sex. There were an estimated 1.2 million homosexual men in Germany in 1928. How this plays into the Holocaust is simple; In 1935 the Nazi's ammended Paragraph 175 of the Criminal Code to ban all homosexuals. Homosexuals sent to concentration camps were marked with a large "175" drawn on the back of their jackets and a black dot. Later a pink triangular patch was used.
Homosexuals were made to wear pink triangles in concentration camps.
Mentally ill & homosexuals
People commonly trapped in the holocaust were Jews. Other numbers of people were, gypsy familys, homosexuals, the disabled, soviet prisoners of war...
Homosexuals had to wear a pink triangle. However, many of the homosexuals in concentration camps had not been convicted of any crime, but were simply sent there by the Gestapo on the basis of gossip.
== == Six million Jews During the Holocaust there were many cultures that were focused on. Much of the list is as follows: Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals,..etc. _____ Note the holocaust was directed against peoples (races), not cultures. Many German Jews, for example, were culturally German. Incidentally, homosexuals do not constitute a culture.
Anyone Hitler believed didn't have morals, like homosexuals.
Homosexuals were made to wear pink triangles in concentration camps.
Mentally ill & homosexuals
the jews and gypsies,catholics,homosexuals and mentally ill people.
Jewish people homosexuals mentally and physically challened people gypsies
People commonly trapped in the holocaust were Jews. Other numbers of people were, gypsy familys, homosexuals, the disabled, soviet prisoners of war...
Jews, prisoners of war, gypsies, homosexuals, people with disabilities, and Jehovah's witnesses
Jews & Gypsies__'Outsider' groups, including incurables, homosexuals and Communists, people with no fixed address, prostitutes, etc ...Jews, disabled people, and homosexuals
Yes, the Holocaust was the Nazi extermination of the Jews, disabled and homosexuals. Nazis obviously started WWII in the first place so, yeah.
Homosexuals had to wear a pink triangle. However, many of the homosexuals in concentration camps had not been convicted of any crime, but were simply sent there by the Gestapo on the basis of gossip.
The Holocaust (also called the Shoah)
To remember all the Jews, homosexuals, and gypsies that were killed because they were such a small minority. And about 6 million Jews died and about 5 million homosexuals and gypsies died.