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Ads by Google      NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Groland During World War II, the country's leadership collaborated with the Nazi occupier; the government engaged in policies of persecution and deportation of Jews and homosexuals. After American troops liberated the country, a sudden change of mood happened, and alleged former collaborators were murdered. The country remained neutral during World War I, it was neutral and was famous for being a haven for soldiers on leave, with its cheap alcohol and prostitutes. http://pedia.nodeworks.com/G/GR/GRO/Groland   (310 words)      Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation (Swiss Banks Litigation) Because the Nazi persecution of homosexuals was distinct in its methods, range and severity, the harm suffered by homosexuals under the Nazi regime differed markedly from that caused by the oppression of homosexuals in Germany in the pre- and post-Nazi periods—and from that in other Western countries during the Nazi period. Although research into the Nazi persecution of homosexuals has made significant progress over the past decade, it is not yet possible to reconstruct the entire history of assets that the Nazi regime looted from homosexuals and of the Nazis’ enslavement of homosexuals for profiteering. Homosexual men began to be sentenced to up to ten years of penal servitude and no less than three months in prison. http://www.infotrue.com/report.html   (310 words)      The Historiography of Homosexuality in Weimar and Nazi Germany - by Jason Tebbe Overall, Giles implies that there is no one motivation for the persecution of homosexuals, and that the policy of castration does not fit inside an overall trend of progressive persecution against homosexuals. The policies towards homosexuals progressed in their severity, beginning with the destruction of homosexual organizations and ultimately culminating with the placement of homosexuals in concentration camps.18 The progression thus detailed by Grau implicitly parallels that of the process leading to the extermination of Jews. The influence of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee is noted, but only for its belief that homosexuals constituted a "third sex." Homosexual writers who discussed the issue of masculinity head on are given greater space in Mosse's account. http://www.lemmingland.com/historio.html   (310 words)      Refugee Status Appeals Authority Database The court nevertheless pointed to the persecution of homosexuals in the concentration camps of the Third Reich and observed that homosexuality can be considered as an attribute that could be a ground for asylum, if it is an irreversible personal characteristic. The persecution of homosexuals is further detailed in the chapter by David Reed in the same volume (pp.61-66), and in a particularly detailed study in that book by Maarten Schild (pp. Persecution of newly emerging despised social groups can be recognised under this approach, as well as persecution of individuals who comprise traditional social groups. http://www.refugee.org.nz/rsaa/text/docs/1312-93.htm   (310 words)      Homosexuals: Victims of the Nazi Era Research on Nazi persecution of homosexuals was impeded by the criminalization and social stigmatization of homosexuals in Europe and the United States in the decades following the Holocaust. Under the Allied Military Government of Germany, some homosexuals were forced to serve out their terms of imprisonment, regardless of the time spent in concentration camps. After the war, homosexual concentration camp prisoners were not acknowledged as victims of Nazi persecution, and reparations were refused. http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm   (310 words)      Nazi Germany : 14 to 18 years Many other groups were targets of persecution and even murder under the Nazis&; ideology, including Germans with mental and physical disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war. This United States Holocaust Memorial Museum online exhibition examines the campaign of persecution and violence against the homosexuals of Germany. Produced like an encyclopedia there are entries on Race Hygiene, Sport as Military Training, Indoctrination of Youth, Nazi Control of Olympics, Exclusion of Jews, Persecution of Athletes, African American Responses, American Antisemitism, American Jewish Boycotters, Nazi Propaganda, Nationalism, Racism, Demilitarization, Opening of the Games, Athletic Competition, African American Athletes and Jewish Athletes. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVhistoryNAZI3.htm   (310 words)      Gays and the Holocaust On November 15th, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., opened a new exhibit called “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945.” The exhibit reveals that persecution of homosexuals in Germany has a long and notorious history. In 1996, New York CityÂ’s Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust announced that it was planning to include in its exhibits some of the measures taken by the Nazis to exterminate German and Austrian homosexuals. I wrote to Dr. Hurwitz, “Your efforts and those of Yitzchak ben Chaim of the Council for Authentic Judaism to deny history puts you, in my opinion, in the same category as the Holocaust revisionists who state that the Nazis didnÂ’t kill the Jews -- there was no ‘final solution.’” http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/11/27/155228.shtml   (310 words)      Telegraph News Germany divided over gay rights law Under the Nazis up to 15,000 homosexuals were murdered and, between 1945 and 1969, 50,000 male homosexuals were punished by the courts after being found "guilty" of having relationships with other males. The plans, to be published by the government today, have unleashed fierce debate in a country haunted by its past persecution of minorities but also keen to bolster the role of the family. Klaus Jetz, spokesman for Germany's Gay and Lesbian Association, stressed that allowing homosexuals to register as a couple was not the same as permitting "gay marriages", although he welcomed the draft law. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/07/05/wgay05.xml   (268 words)      Homosexuality and the Nazi Party As the badge used by the Nazis to designate homosexuals in the concentration camps, the pink triangle perfectly expresses the message of "gay rights." That message is that homosexuals are currently and historically victims of irrational prejudice and that those who oppose homosexuality are hateful bigots. When homosexuals display the pink triangle, they are equating all opposition to homosexuality with Nazism and themselves with the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Scott Lively is co-author of The Pink Swastika: Homosexuals and the Nazi Party (Keizer, Oregon: Founders Publishing Company, 1995). http://www.leaderu.com/jhs/lively.html   (268 words)      Homosexuals: Victims of the Nazi Era Research on Nazi persecution of homosexuals was impeded by the criminalization and social stigmatization of homosexuals in Europe and the United States in the decades following the Holocaust. Under the Allied Military Government of Germany, some homosexuals were forced to serve out their terms of imprisonment, regardless of the time spent in concentration camps. The 1935 version of Paragraph 175 remained in effect in the Federal Republic (West Germany) until 1969, so that well after liberation, homosexuals continued to fear arrest and incarceration. http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm   (1427 words)      Homosexuals: Victims of the Nazi Era Research on Nazi persecution of homosexuals was impeded by the criminalization and social stigmatization of homosexuals in Europe and the United States in the decades following the Holocaust. Under the Allied Military Government of Germany, some homosexuals were forced to serve out their terms of imprisonment, regardless of the time spent in concentration camps. The 1935 version of Paragraph 175 remained in effect in the Federal Republic (West Germany) until 1969, so that well after liberation, homosexuals continued to fear arrest and incarceration. http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm   (1427 words)      gay-medieval-history.txt Much work has been done on the persecution of homosexuals, and Boswell's thesis is that persecution destroyed the homosexual subculture of the twelfth entury. Gay men, and, I think it is fair to say, some active homosexuals in earlier periods form support networks through friends and occupation as much as through their family. The number of groups is enormous, since one individual may belong to more than one group, so there is academic interest only in certain sorts of subcultures; religious, ethnic, womens' and deviant subcultures have all been of interest to scholars, often reflecting their own concerns. http://eserver.org/gender/gay-medieval-history.txt   (1427 words)      Homosexuals: Victims of the Nazi Era Research on Nazi persecution of homosexuals was impeded by the criminalization and social stigmatization of homosexuals in Europe and the United States in the decades following the Holocaust. After the war, homosexual concentration camp prisoners were not acknowledged as victims of Nazi persecution, and reparations were refused. Mug shot of Friedrich Althoff, a waiter from Düsseldorf, who was born May 16, 1899. http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm   (1427 words)      ILGA Annual Report 1998 This year significant ILGA effort was directed toward asking Amnesty International to increase its activity on behalf of prisoners jailed for sexual orientation and to join us in asking the Catholic Church for an apology for the ChurchÂ’s passivity during the Nazi persecution and its responsibility for persecuting homosexuals throughout the Inquisiton period. ILGA demanded the church extend its plea for pardon for its indifference during the Holocaust, as well as for the persecution of homosexuals during nazism in Europe. ILGA has adopted a new constitution and continues with the process of regionalization. http://www.pangea.org/~cogailes/ilga/repilga98texte.html   (1427 words)      Nazi persecution of homosexuals Online Sources on the Nazi persecution of homosexuals Italian site by Giovanni dall'Orto with many documents concerning the NS-persecution of homosexuals; different langauges US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Use search function to access articles http://www.xs4all.nl/~kmlink/07gayhistory/03linkstogayresources/nazipersecutionofhomosexuals.htm   (1427 words)      MSU Museum - Exhibitions - Other Victims of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945 Other Victims of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945 MSU Museum - Exhibitions - Other Victims of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945 This exhibition examines the rationale, means, and impact of the Nazi regime's efforts to rid Germany of male homosexuality. http://museum.cl.msu.edu/Exhibitions/Past/OtherVictimsoftheHolocaust.html   (163 words)      HOMOSEXUALS & NAZIS: Queers, Nazis, and the Men Who Love Them. But in 1981, outraged by a prominent bishop's characterization of homosexuals as "sick," he became inspired with a sense of obligation to obtain recognition for what had happened to some 350,000 homosexuals during the war, and his public statements became a cause celebre in France. But very little had come out about their treatment of homosexuals." Gays were arrested and interned at work camps prior to the genocide of Jews, gypsies, and handicapped, and continued to be imprisoned even after the fall of the Third Reich and liberation of the camps. The persecution of lesbians and gay men by the Nazis is a subject that has been constantly debated during the last decade, providing a theme for books, articles, and plays. http://www.ecosyn.us/Bush-Hitler/Blogspot/Gay_Holocaust/Queer_Nazis.html   (163 words)      [Holocaust] CFP ‘Beyond Camps & Forced Labour: International Research onSurvvivors of Nazi Persecution' For the purpose of the conference, a ‘survivor’ is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis&; racial, political, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second World War. These will include - but are not limited to - Jews, Gypsies and Slavonic people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, the disabled, the so-called ‘racially impure’, and forced labourers. The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. http://www.seva.net:8090/pipermail/holocaust/2004-November/000867.html   (451 words)      *QL-ED*: SA 420: DEADLINE NEARS FOR ASSYLUM CLAIMS BASED ON SEXUAL ORIE Homosexuals who have experienced or fear persecution in their homelands have been eligible for asylum in the United States as members of a particular social group since June, 1994 when Toboso-Alfonso, 20 IandN Dec. 819 (BIA 1990), the Board of Immigration Appeals case involving a Cuban gay asylum-seeker, was designated as precedent. Consider how in Islamic fundamentalist countries, homosexuality may be punished by the death penalty; in Russia and China, homosexuals are subject to electroshock therapy to convert them into heterosexuals; and in several Latin American countries, death squads hunt and exterminate homosexuals as part of their "social cleansing" efforts. Authored by Heather McClure, Christopher Nugent and Lavi Soloway, the 178-page handbook provides an in-depth focus on preparing affirmative applications for asylum by gays and lesbians, and insightful information and resources to aid sexual minority asylum-seekers and their advocates in the preparation and representation of bonafide asylum claims. http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/queerlaw-edit/msg01552.html   (451 words)      Houston Voice Online The story of Richard Grune, whose artwork is a visual representation of the persecution of homosexuals, is also recounted in the exhibit. Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code was all the authorities needed to detain homosexuals, throw them in prison, send them to concentration camps, conduct medical experiments on them and even kill them. “In 2002, the German parliament pardoned all homosexuals.” http://www.houstonvoice.com/print.cfm?content_id=1220   (451 words)      Homosexuality in China Chinese homosexuals did not experience high-profile persecution comparing with that was received by homosexuals in Europe during the Middle Ages. In Buddhism sexual desire (regardless of being homosexual or heterosexual) is something that prevents a soul from achieving nirvana. The situation of homosexuality in China is currently quite ambiguous, although many instances have been recorded in the dynastic histories. http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/homosexuality_in_china   (2151 words)      Eras Journal - Sendziuk, P: Review of "Living Out Loud", Graham Willett He also discusses the problems facing homosexuals at the present time, not least of which include the current monopoly of the gay press, the psychological effects of dealing with AIDS and death, and the difficulties confronting young men and women as they attempt to 'come out' in a 'straight' world. Indeed, the instruments of repression and the regulators and enforcers of community standards - the press and the law courts - unwittingly facilitated the development of the camp scene by publishing the names and location of common homosexual beats and cafes in the process of conducting and reporting criminal proceedings against homosexuals. The first gay rights organisations - the Daughters of Bilitis and the Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP) were established in 1970, and from that point on political activism became a permanent part of Australian homosexual life. http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/eras/edition_1/sendziuk.htm   (2151 words)      The "Homosexual Holocaust" -- Another Gay Militant Myth? Thus we read that Washington D.C.'s new Holocaust Museum has legitimized the claims of "gay rights" leaders that the Nazis singled out homosexuals -- like Jews -- for massive persecution. It's a breakthrough that a holocaust museum will try to document the fate of those homosexuals who died in concentration camps -- a group that for nearly 50 years has been excluded from our memories... `Other historians like Shirer (The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) and Mello (History of the SS, 1923-1945), document the pivotal role Nazi homosexuals played in the rise of Hitler and the defeat of the old conservative, Prussian military. http://www.leaderu.com/marco/special/spc16.html   (1648 words)      Homosexuality in China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chinese homosexuals did not experience high-profile persecution comparing with that was received by homosexuals in Europe during the Middle Ages. During the evaluation of the amendment of the marriage law in China in 2003, there was the first discussion about homosexual marriage. In October 2000, a Beijing court ruled that homosexuality was "abnormal and unacceptable to the Chinese public" [Washington Post 24 Jan. 2000], which was the first time this official attitude was stated openly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_China   (3033 words)      AIDS AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN CHINA Homosexuals are generally ignored by public health authorities and ignored in public discussions of AIDS. Since homosexual transmission of HIV is related to behaviors such as anal intercourse and number of sex partners, as well as to the prevalence of STDs, estimating the potential for an HIV epidemic among male homosexuals is difficult. Tianjin journalist in his 1995 book 'AIDS Is Closing in On China' ['Aizhibing Bijin Zhongguo'] reported the experience of several male homosexuals in Beijing who have HIV as well as the work of an AIDS telephone hotline mostly concerned with providing HIV information to Beijing area men who have sex with men. http://www.talkaboutreligion.com/group/aus.religion/messages/67644.html   (1046 words)      Holocaust - Homosexual Victims Humiliated, Tortured. A state representative accused of downplaying Nazi persecution of homosexuals says he plans to view the exhibit. But state Rep. Arlon Lindner said he plans to see the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Nazi Persecutions of Homosexuals 1933-1945," which is on display at the Downtown YWCA on Nicollet Mall through Sept. 26. I am still paying the annual dues to remain in groups such as the Association of Holocaust Organizations, etc. so that our name has to appear in all of their publications, mailing lists, website lists, etc. I think the mere fact that we exist does help. http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/landman.htm   (1046 words)      Exploding the Myth of Pink Triangle [Free Republic] Our review of more than 200 history and other texts written since the 1930s suggests that a pink swastika would be equally appropriate: while some homosexuals were jailed by the Nazi party, there is no doubt that the Nazi party itself had many homosexuals within its own ranks, even among its highest leadership. The pink triangle, symbol of the “gay rights” movement, is familiar to many Americans. These were the scapegoats singled out for persecution. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b33b7e907fd.htm   (12433 words)      Breaking the Silence: Friedrich-Paul Von Groszheim Von Groszheim was never acknowledged as a victim of the Nazi regime, and due to on-going persecution of homosexuals in Germany. Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim was arrested for the first time in 1937 with 230 other men, in a mass arrest of homosexuals in Lübeck, a German port on the Baltic Sea. Von Groszheim's story is also one of nine stories of homosexual victims told on Museum Identity Cards; his identity card may be accessed at the Wexner Learning Center by touching ID. Card Stories on the menu and then keying in 5364. http://www.holocaust-trc.org/groszheim.htm   (239 words)      Homosexuals Get Short Shrift from the Supreme Court, But an Expert Says History Tells a Different Tale The decision was applauded by fundamentalist groups as a move toward greater sexual morality, challenged by civil libertarians as a threat to the right of privacy and denounced by gay activists as a pretext for persecution of homosexuals. Certainly there have been periods of intolerance toward homosexuals in history, but there have also been periods of social acceptance. To David F. Greenberg, 44, a professor of sociology at New York University, these disparate voices reflect society’s age-old ambivalence about the regulation of sexual behavior and of homosexuality in particular. http://www.sodomylaws.org/history/history04.htm   (239 words)      Choike - Homophobia Homosexuals who suffer extreme forms of persecution, either directly at the hands of the state, or at the hands of individuals or groups, against whom the state refuses to protect them, may be forced to seek asylum in other countries. However, only a select number of countries have national norms recognizing persecution on the basis of sexual orientation as grounds for granting asylum, and no international treaties deal explicitly with this issue. One aim of the organizations that seek to defend the rights of gays and lesbians is to reform these discriminatory laws, and to get others passed that expressly protect the freedom of sexual orientation and identity (see Choike’s In-depth Report on Sexual minorities and the law). http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1029.html   (239 words)

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