When the Nazi concentration camps were liberated by the Allies, it was a time of great jubilation for the tens of thousands of people incarcerated in them. But an often forgotten fact of this time is that prisoners who happened to be wearing the pink triangle (the Nazis’ way of marking and identifying homosexuals) were forced to serve out the rest of their sentence. This was due to a part of German law simply known as “Paragraph 175” which criminalized homosexuality. The law wasn’t repealed until 1969.
This should be required learning, internationally.
I grew up here in Germany and I have NEVER heard of this. Wow. Shit.
So any motherfucker that compares being queer to being a Nazi is going to get chewed the fuck out. We were killed by the Nazi and by inaction from the Allies.
