Why were gay people targeted in the holocaust?

Answer 1

Yes led. One historian who has made this his specialty (Richard Plant) estimates somewhere between 50,000 and 63,000 gay men were killed in the concentration camps.

To make matters worse, when the camps were liberated at the end of the war, Allied military authorities determined that homosexuals who had been imprisoned for homosexual acts had not completed their sentences, and these survivors of the Nazi concentration camps were returned to civilian prison to compete their sentences.

Answer 2

Gay men were rounded up just like the Jews as they were considered social misfits by the third Reich and put in concentration camps. They wore a pink triangle on their prison uniform. For what ever reason the lesbian women were pretty much left alone. it was rare that one was arrested.

Answer 3

homosexual people were categorized as misfits, worthy of extinction by Adolf Hitler. They were forced to wear pink triangles to identify them and were brutally executed, along with the Jewish and other groups Hitler found to taint his vision of a pure blood Caucasian (white) utopian society.

Answer 4

Hitler's Nazi party promoted the idea of Germans being the "Master Race"

Racial purity was one of the rallying cries of this movement.

Any other race was a target

Defectives with mental, physical or behavioral problems were singled out.

Gays or people "Identified" as gay were specially targeted like the Jews due to the "unclean" (my description of their reasoning) of the defect.

To be identified as "Gay" normally a neighbor or acquaintance would "Inform" the authorities.

It is likely that many thousands of heterosexual persons were persecuted as gay.

Answer 5

Gays were sent to concentration camps, where they were often killed by fellow inmates.

Answer 6

Many were sent to concentration camps and killed - in some cases by other prisoners.

Answer 7

yes