Kevin E. Abrams
Director of International Development for
The International Committee for Holocaust Truth.

INTRODUCTION:

The association which has become the International Committee for 
Holocaust Truth, came together in 1994 in response to a "pilgrimage" 
to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, made by a small 
group of mostly American "gay rights" political activists. Their 
purpose was to demand a place in the memorial for homosexual victims 
of the Nazis. They were met in Jerusalem by a contingent of outraged 
Jewish Holocaust survivors. One heartfelt cry from the crowd 
captured the essence of their grief; "My grandfather was killed for 
refusing to have sexual relations with the camp commandant," a man 
screamed, "You are desecrating this place..." (The Jerusalem Post, 
May 30, 1994).

The Jerusalem attempt by "gay" activists to place themselves beside 
the Jewish people as equals in persecution was not the first action 
of its kind. However, this single event served to crystalize an 
awareness in the minds of active and concerned members of the 
Christian and Jewish communities that a historical revisionist 
movement of frightening proportions had risen in the United States. 
A situation which had once been common knowledge, that Nazi sadism 
was intimately linked with homosexuality (so much so that Hollywood 
movies of the 1950's frequently portrayed SS camp guards as 
homosexuals), was now reversed. The villians had become the victims.

The founding members of the ICHT, some of whom had already begun 
investigating this phenomenon independantly, determined that a 
comprehensive study of the "Gay Holocaust" revisionist movement was 
needed. It was already common knowledge that the pink triangle patch 
(worn by some homosexuals and other prisoners in Nazi work camps) 
had been adopted as the very symbol of so-called "gay rights." 
Research exposed the fact that exploitation of the Holocaust has 
become a virtual industry of the American homosexual movement. A 
revisionist campaign, subtly conducted since the 1970's (Adam:86), 
has convinced Americans that the sad experience of a relatively few 
homosexuals represents the general experience of homosexuals in Nazi 
Germany. The central role of homosexuals in the creation and 
administration of the Third Reich, widely documented during and 
after World War II, is now suppressed in publications by university 
academics and the media.

THE "GAY" HOLOCAUST MYTH:

The concept of a "Gay Holocaust" is standard fare in homosexual 
publications. A recent Advocate article on the subject was titled 
"Our Holocaust." A fim series at a Holocaust museum was described by 
another publication as "the first evening program to deal with the 
subject of the Gay Holocaust" (Wisconsin Light, February 16, 1994).

The heart of the "Gay Holocaust" myth is the proposition that 
homosexuals and Jews share a common heritage of persecution by the 
Nazis. As the story goes, "Gay" victims were roughly equivalent to 
Jewish victims, though fewer in number. In articles and books on the 
"Gay Holocaust," homosexual activists have claimed that as many as 2,
500,000 homosexuals were killed in Nazi death camps (Outworld, July 
1996). In most versions, Jews and "gays" in the concentration camps 
are portrayed as virtually interchangeable as to their treatment by 
the guards, their use as guinea pigs in medical experiements, and 
the manner in which they died. In some versions, such as that 
presented in the play Bent (infra), "gays" suffered worse than the 
Jews did. The fact that homosexuals remained imprisoned when the 
Allies liberated the camps is often cited as evidence of their 
greater suffering.

Like most effective lies, the "Gay Holocaust" myth contains some 
truth. At least some homosexuals were interned in Nazi work camps. 
Jews wore a yellow star; "gays" wore a pink triangle. Nazi officials 
publicly condemned homosexuality. But the reconstruction of history 
in which "gays" are equivalent to Jews in the Holocaust is 
completely fraudulent. As Jewish researcher Kevin Abrams has noted, 
"[i]ronically, the record shows there was far more brutality, rape, 
torture and murder committed against innocent people by Nazi 
deviants and homosexuals than there ever was against homosexuals"  
("The Other Side of the Pink Triangle," Lambda Report, August 1994).

LET US COMPARE THE FATE OF JEWS AND HOMOSEXUALS UNDER THE NAZIS.

First, Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe were systematically 
dehumanized and stripped of all rights and property. They were 
forced to wear the yellow star in public for identification and once 
identified, they were continually harassed and beaten on the 
streets. As the "Final Solution" unfolded, all Jews in Europe were 
first herded into ghettos and then shipped by cattle-car to one of 
six death camps which had been designed specifically to facilitate 
their extinction. As many as six million Jews (roughly 85% of 
European Jewry) were brutally murdered by firing squads and in gas 
chambers. The exact number is contested but is certainly in the 
millions.

Even by the reckoning of the enthusiastically pro-"gay" U.S. 
Holocaust Museum, no more than 5,000 to 15,000 pink triangle 
prisoners (mostly homosexual) were ever held in concentration camps 
by the Nazis (Rose:40). Of this group an undetermined number were 
political prisoners who had been falsely charged with homosexual 
offenses (Kogen:44). Pink triangle prisoners were generally sent, 
not to death camps, but to some of the 10,000 labor camps which 
served as prison facilities for criminals and political detainees. 
Homosexuals in Germany were never forced to wear the pink triangle 
except as an identification badge in the camps. They did not lose 
civil rights or property. They were not subjected to public 
humiliation or harassment, nore were they forced into ghettos. 
Heinrich Himmler had estimated that there were two million 
homosexuals in Germany alone during the Third Reich. We can probably 
assume that at least as many more lived in German occupied 
territory. Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that only a fraction 
of 1% of European homosexuals were ever jailed by the Nazis. Thus it 
is probable that more than 99% of European homosexuals lived 
(relatively) peacefully, throughout the reign of the Nazis. In 
Germany, since nearly all citizens were conscripted, over 90% of 
homosexuals would have actually served the Third Reich.

The Jews were the targets of widespread, continual and vicious 
propaganda designed to engender and inflame anti-Semitism in the 
German people. Thousands of examples of this hate-filled propaganda 
(in print and on film) survived the defeat of the Nazis. Hatred of 
Jews was the central theme of Hitler's Mein Kampf and of a great 
many Nazi publications.

Evidence of Nazi anti-homosexual propaganda is minimal at best. 
Official statements against homosexuality, made primarily by 
Heinrich Himmler, appear when taken in context to be mere pandering 
to the German public and to conservative elements of the military. 
(The Germans had become disgusted with homosexuality after observing 
"gay and lesbian" excesses during the Weimar period of the 1920's). 
Himmler is quoted in an address to military leaders as saying that 
homosexuals should be "drowned in bogs," but his actions were 
surprisingly pro-homosexual (infra). Mein Kampf does not target 
homosexuals at all. In fact, Hitler dictated much of Mein Kampf to 
his private secretary, Rudolf Hess, while sharing a cell with him in 
Landsberg prison in 1924. Hess was a homosexual known alternately as 
"Fraulein Anna" and "Black Bertha" in the "gay" subculture of Munich 
(Waite:284, Costello and Tsarev:xix).

The Nazis had no legitimate legal basis for imprisoning the Jews, 
yet, with hardly any exceptions, Jews who were arrested were sent to 
camps to be killed. They had virtually no possibility of release. 
While interned, some were subjected to horrific medical experiments. 
They were injected with disease, tortured in "endurance" tests and 
used as guinea pigs for biological and other weapons. The result of 
most procedures was death. Outside the camps, harboring Jews was a 
capital offense.

In contrast, most pink triangle prisoners were arrested legitimately 
for sex crimes under Paragraph 175 of the pre-Hitler German legal 
code. Anti-sodomy laws were on the books before the Nazis came to 
power and remained in force long after the defeat of the Third 
Reich. (Similar laws are still in force in many U.S. states.) Only 
10% of those arrested under Paragraph 175 were interned in the 
camps. Once interned, "gays" had a fair chance of being released 
even before the end of their sentences. Many were discharged to join 
the army (Katz:146). Others who convinced Nazi officials that they 
had reverted to heterosexuality were also released. In 1937, after a 
brief period in which laws against homosexuality were strengthened, 
the laws were greatly relaxed. Under the new policy only four-time 
repeat offenders were jailed (Katz:146). Harboring homosexuals was 
never a crime. In fact, Himmler personally granted immunity from 
arrest to many homosexuals in the arts community (Plant:116).

Homosexuals were subjected to medical experimentation mainly to 
"force" them to become heterosexual. This was consistent with Nazi 
preoccupation with breeding children for the Fatherland. Some 
homosexuals were forced engage in sex with female prostitutes. A few 
were surgically castrated. Others received a surgical implant 
designed to increase their testosterone level, similar in some 
respects to the subcutaneous Norplant contraceptive device now used 
by some American women.

As a final point of difference, Jews as a group bear no culpability 
for the Holocaust or other Nazi atrocities. They had no part in the 
creation or development of the Nazi party or its policies. They had 
no represenation in the leadership of the Third Reich or among the 
guards in the concentration camps.

Homosexual, on the other had, figured importantly in the Nai Party 
from its inception to its eventual demise. Many homosexuals were 
prominent in the government and military organizations of the Third 
Reich, and many of the concentration camp guards and administrators 
were homosexual.

ORIGINS AND USE OF THE "GAY HOLOCAUST" MYTH

Appropriation of Holocaust symbolism by the "gay rights" movement 
began in the early days of homosexual militancy. The movement, which 
had previously been defined as a peaceful struggle to gain a "right 
to privacy" for homosexuals, changed character abruptly in 1969. The 
pivotal event was the Stonewall Riot in New York City. A police 
attempt to arrest a boy prostitute at the Stonewall "gay bar" 
sparked a riot by bar patrons (Reeves in Pascal:47). They attacked 
the police, drove them back into the bar and then set it on fire 
(Marotta:72). This event is annually commemorated as "Gay Pride Day."

It was at a 1970 meeting of "new militants" (homosexuals who favored 
an aggressive posture toward society) that an agreement was reached 
"...calling for a memorialization of homosexuals killed in Nazi 
concentration camps" (Adam:82ff). According to Outworld, a 
Sacramento, California based homosexual publication, the pink 
triangle had become "a widely used political symbol" by the mid 
1970's.

        In 1975 Ira Glasser, a non-Gay Jew who now serves as the 
executive director of the ACLU, led a coalition of gay and straight 
groups in New York City to pass a city-wide ban on anti-gay 
discrimination. The coalition chose the pink triangle as its 
campaign symbol to emphasize the oppression to which homosexual men 
and women were and are subjected....The pink triangle was a 
prominent feature in the play Bent. Gay activists used the pink 
triangle as their symbol in the fight against Anita Bryant's crusade 
to `save our children'...The move was an attempt to appeal to 
Florida's large Jewish vote by highlighting the shared persecution 
during the Nazi era (Outweek, July 1996).

The play Bent, a quasi-pornographic stage production which was 
successful in many U.S. cities, audaciously portrays homosexuals as 
the most persecuted group in Nazi camps. "Max, the homosexual 
protagonist...covets the yellow star because he believes he will 
receive better treatment by the guards at Dachau...The implication 
that Jewish inmates were coddled, if only in comparison to 
homosexuals, enrages Jewish theatergoers" (The Arizona Republic, 
Feburary 21, 1996).

Hitler's plans for a "1000 Year Reich," is a "Homofascist" Conspiracy 
which still thrives today disguised as "gay" rights. Today's 
Holocaust memorial museums are being co-opted as part of a broader 
homosexualist strategy.

A CYNICAL PUBLIC RELATIONS STRATEGY

Unlike the dignified and respectful memorialization of Jewish 
Holocaust victims by their fellow Jews, the "memorialization" of 
homosexual victims by gay activists is blatantly political and 
opportunistic. With some exceptions where it is clearly appropriate 
to do so, Jews do not attempt to engender support for their 
political or social goals by wearing yellow stars. This would be 
viewed as crass exploitation of Holocaust imagery and a 
trivialization of the suffering of Holocaust victims. Yet, gays have 
adopted the pink triangle as the central symbol of "gay rights" -- 
their campaign to legitimize same-sex sexual practices. As Dr. 
Judith Reisman has noted, "pink triangles are sweeping the land, 
embossed on fancy stationary, upscale check books, flags, posters, 
stickers, shirts, pins and the like" (Culture Wars, April, 1996).

What do homosexuals gain by this public relations effort? They gain 
sympathy, acceptance and power. Public sympathy for victim groups 
and the political power they derive from such status is not 
necessarily bad. Holocaust victims do deserve our sympathy. Their 
descendants deserve to be recognized to the extent that they can 
help to prevent the recurrence of circumstances that caused the 
Holocaust.

Homosexuals are undeserving of such empowerment for three reasons. 
First, as noted above, their reconstruction of Holocaust history is 
fraudulent. Second, "gays" cannot legitimately claim to be a 
distinct Holocaust victim group when so many of the victimizers were 
also homosexual. Whatever moral authority "decendants" of homosexual 
victims might have is offset by the high-level participation of 
homosexuals in Nazi atrocities. Third, unlike Jewish ethnicity, 
homosexuality is not morally neutral. Even if it were as prevalent 
as homosexual activists claim, "gay" victimization by the Nazis 
would not legitimize homosexual conduct. And this, after all, is the 
point of claiming victim status for homosexuals: the "appropriation 
of the Holocaust, through the emotion of sympathy, in order to 
manipulate this widely understood, deeply felt record of organized 
hate for their own parochial purposes" (Katz, The Holocaust in 
Historical Context, I, 522); i.e. to get society to accept and 
excuse behavior which it otherwise would not tolerate.

SUCCESS OF THE "GAY HOLOCAUST" MYTH:

There are currently more than 100 Holocaust memorial organizations 
around the world. The New York-based Association of Holocaust 
Organizations lists 96 member groups. Most of these are in the 
United States, the largest and most influential being the United 
States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D. C.. From its 
initial opening in 1993, The U.S. Holocaust Memorial has been 
heavily influenced by gay activists. According to one "gay" 
publication, the choice of opening day was "perhaps not 
coincidentally the day after the Gay, Lesbian, Bi and Transgendered 
March on Washington" (The Lavender Network, September, 1993). An 
April 23 dedication ceremony included speeches by "Burret Brick, 
executive director of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations...[and] 
Paulette Goodman, past president of Parents and Friends of Lesbians 
and Gays" (ibid.).

Early on, the museum hired avowed homosexual Dr. Klaus Mueller as a 
special "consultant on gay and lesbian issues" and began a pro-gay 
"fundraising and awareness campaign" as one of its first projects 
(Bay Windows, August 12, 1993). At a June 16, 1993 meeting with 40 
homosexual activists, Steve Goodell, Director of the museum's 
Special Audiences and Outreach Program promised more "gay-related 
events, such as film, lecture and panel discussion series" (ibid.). 
A "Gay Holocaust" film series was introduced in May, 1994 (San 
Francisco Examiner, May 14, 1994). The museum has also hosted gay 
events not related to the Holocaust. The New York Post (October 25, 
1995) reported that the memorial was used for the 1995 National 
Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association annual meeting. The museum 
served as the starting point for the 1994 gay march on the White 
House (The Washington Post, April 17, 1994).

Presently at the Washington museum, homosexuals are honored as Nazi 
victims in a permanent display and with special projects. The New 
York Times (June 26, 1995) highlighted one such project in a news 
story. Museum patrons were given identification cards of alleged 
homosexual camp inmates to carry with them through the museum. A 
fact sheet provided by the museum offered this description: "...as 
the visitor descends into the representation of the depths of the 
Holocaust, he or she will discover the persecution and fate of his 
or her silent companion." The p[roject was inaugurated with a special 
Congressional preview featuring, among others, homosexual 
Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts.

In Los Angeles, the Simon Weisenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance 
also supports the "Gay Holocaust" myth (The Advociate, May 4, 1993).

New Holocaust memorials are currently under construction in Boston 
and New York City. Both organzations have planned gay Holocaust 
exhibits similar to those in Washington. The New England Holocaust 
Memorial is headed by a committee which includes several homosexual 
activists. According to `In Newsweekly' (October 22, 1995), which 
bills itself as "New England's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Newspaper," 
activists Gary Cohen and Kenneth Freed co-chair a "gay and lesbian 
committee...involved with the project since 1993." The New England 
memorial was dedicated on October 21, 1995 with a ceremony in 
Boston's Union Street Park across from City Hall The unfinished 
momument of six steel and glass towers includes an inscription 
honoring homosexuals as Nazi victims. Cohen contends that 
homosexuals who contributed to this project "are not necessarily 
doing it for political purposes" but this year's "Gay Pride Week" in 
Boston featured a high-profile Candlelight procession" to the 
memorial. The participants were asked to "wear the pink triangle" 
(ibid.).

In New York, the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the 
Holocaust is being built in Battery Park. Director David Altshuler 
has stated flatly that the museum will honor homosexuals as Nazi 
victims, denouncing opponents of his plan as "bigoted" (The 
Washington Blade, April 26, 1996). An article in The Jewish Press 
(also, April 26, 1996), titled "Stop Gay Desecration of NYC 
Holocaust Museum" reported that a growing number of New York's large 
Orthodox Jewish community have begun a campaign to reverse Mr. 
Altshuler's decision.

Other Holocaust education projects have embraced the "Gay Holocaust" 
myth. Probably the best known of these is the highly publicized Anne 
Frank Exhibit, which has been touring the United States for several 
years ("Anne Frank in the World 1929-1945" brochure).

ARE HOMOSEXUALS "BUYING" A PLACE IN THE HOLOCAUST?

Gay influence in the Holocaust education establishment is enhanced by 
sizable financial donations from the homosexual community. Helped by 
Clinton administration insider and Hollywood gay activist David 
Mixner, fundraising efforts have yielded more than $1 million for 
the Washington museum (Bay Windows, August 12, 1993, Echo Magazine, 
undated). Boston-area homosexuals also donated over $1 million for 
the New England Holocaust Memorial (in newsweekly, October 22, 
1995). These donations are apparently made with strings attached, 
since most of the funding appears to be dedicated to increasing the 
visibility of homosexuals in Holocaust education. For example, the 
Washington museum has budgeted $1.5 million to fund a search for gay 
concentration camp survivors in Europe. Mueller has spent much time 
in Europe conducting this research, assisted by Steven Spielberg's 
Shoah Foundation.

Shoah Foundation recently received a $1 million grant from the 
federal government to assist Spielberg's oral history film project 
on the Hoocaust. His part in Mueller's project is "conducting taped 
oral histories with gay survivors" (Echo Magazine, undated). 
Spielberg's participation in the Mueller project coincides with his 
formation of Dreamworks Movie Studios along with reputed homosexual 
David Geffin. Geffin, named by Spy magazine (admittedly a somewhat 
questionable source) as the head of "Hollywood's Gay Mafia," is the 
billionaire financier of gay causes, including a part in President 
Clinton's push for "gays in the military" (Miller:534).

If homosexuals are "buying into" the Holocaust, their purchase is 
being subsidized by the U.S. government. The $1 million grant to the 
Shoah Foundation is just a small part of the massive federal funding 
of Holocaust education. The very ground on which the U.S. Holocaust 
museum sits, described by The Washington Post as "a prize piece of 
federal land" (April 18, 1993), was donated by the government. In 
its initial operating year alone the Washington museum received an 
additional $21.7 million in taxpayer funding. Taxpayers may be 
funding the New York museum to the tune of more than $100,000 per 
day (Forward, April 26, 1994).

Our committee is not opposed to taxpayer funding of proper Holocaust 
education. We oppose the use of public funding to assist the spread 
of "Gay Holocaust" revisionism.

SCHOOL CHILDREN INDOCTRINATED BY ONE-SIDED HISTORY:

A Washington Post (April 18, 1993) article announcing the opening of 
the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Holocaust Council director Sara 
Bloomfield said of the purpose of the museum: "Remembrance is not 
enough.... All of us are deeply and perhaps naively committed to the 
potential of the museum to change the world." Museum director 
Jeshajahu Weinberg echoed these sentiments in the same article, 
saying that the Holocaust education at the museum "is imbued with 
moral lessons." A later Washington post (April 17, 1994) story 
reported that nearly 2 million visitors had toured the museum in its 
first year, 90,000 of whom were school children on field trips.

These reports raise a few obvious questions. What moral lessons did 
these children learn when they saw homosexuals portrayed only as 
Nazi victims, but never as Nazi victimizers? Does this one-sided 
portrayal subtly teach that homosexuals are "good" and that 
opponents of homosexual behavior are "bad" people like the Nazis? As 
Bloomfield noted, "People recognize their own tendency for evil, but 
identify with the victims" (ibid., emphasis added). Does the 
"changed world" envisioned by museum officials include the 
normalization of homosexual conduct and its acceptance by children?

The following quote is from The Washington Post (April 17, 1994) story:

        The museum's work with children will get a massive push from 
a five-year pilot project designed to help students use the museum to 
`understand more about prejudice and racism'. The undertaking [is] 
funded by a $1 million grant from the Fannie Mae Foundation [a 
government agency] (emphasis added).

Teaching children about prejudice at Holocaust museums promotes 
acceptance of homosexual behavior. This propaganda is a primary 
concern of our International Committee for Holocaust Truth.

A NATIONAL HOLOCAUST CURRICULUM FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS:

On April 16, 1996, Congresman Dick Zimmer of New Jersey introduced 
HR3257 in the U.S. Congress. It would "direct the United States 
Holocaust Council to develop a model curriculum on the Holocaust 
that can be used by all schools in the nation" (Letter to the editor 
by a member of the New Jersey State Holocaust Education Commission, 
Newark Star-Ledger, undated). The track record of the U.S. Holocaust 
Museum suggests that their "model curriculum" will teach the "Gay 
Holocaust" myth as fact to our children.

BUDGET PRIORITY SERVES GAY INTERESTS, IGNORES SUBJECT OF GREATER 
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

A correlation between homosexuality and Nazism is well documented by 
historians, yet it is ignored, even suppressed, by leading Holocaust 
education organizations.

Holocaust Council founding chairman Miles Lerman lamented to the 
homosexual newspaper Bay Windows that finding information about 
"Gay" Holocaust victims for the U.S. Holocaust museum was very 
difficult. "We need more artifacts, more than anything else, 
pertaining to gays....I cannot tell you how hard I worked to get 
data on gays. I don't know why but we have very, very little" (Bay 
Windows, August 12, 1993) The dearth of evidence supporting a "Gay 
Holocaust" speaks for itself. In contrast, finding evidence that a 
disproportionately large number of Nazi leaders were homosexuals is 
as easy as a trip to the local library. More than one hundred 
historians have noted this correlation. The following are just a few 
of the several hundreds of references by historians to homosexuality 
among the Nazi elite compiled in The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in 
the Nazi Party (Lively and Abrams, 1995).

AMONG THE FOUNDERS OF THE NAZI PARTY:

"...many of the early Nazis...[were] homosexual" (Shirer, The Rise 
and Fall of the Third Reich (paperback), p. 64).

"Gerhard Rossbach [founder of the Brownshirts]...was an open 
homosexual. On his staff was Lieutenant Edmund Heines who was later 
to become the lover of Ernst Roehm" (Graber, The History of the SS, 
p. 33).

"For the purposes of the present investigations Hitler is important 
for what he has represented... when he embarked the German people on 
the policy that brought about the world catastrophe. He was the 
central figure around which a number of men grouped themselves, from 
the 1920's onwards, in a movement to gain supreme control of the 
German people. As the movement developed they were aided and abetted 
and supported financially as well as politically by the industrial 
capitalists of the Rhineland; but the initiative did not come from 
the latter. It came from Hitler as the condottiere [leader] of a band 
of evil men who were united together by a common vice 
(homosexuality)" [Igra, German's National Vice p. 26. Igra was a 
Jewish historian who fled Germany in 1939 after twenty years of 
observing Hitler and the Nazis.]

DURING THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PARTY:

"The principle function of this army-like organization [SA] was 
beating up anyone who opposed the Nazis, and Hitler believed this 
was a job best undertaken by homosexuals" (Fuchs, The Hitler Fact 
Book, p.48).

"...men of the rank of Gruppenfuhrer or Obergruppenfuhrer, 
commanding units of several hundred thousand Storm Troopers, were 
almost without exception homosexuals. Indeed, unless a Storm Troop 
officer were homosexual he had no chance of advancement" 
(Knickerbocker, Is Tomorrow Hitler's?, p. 55).

"Men such as Captain Roehm, are, to our knowledge, no rarity at all 
in the National Socialist Party. It rather teems there with 
homosexuals of all kinds. And the joy of man in man, which has been 
slandered in their papers so often as an oriental vice although the 
Edda frankly extols it as the highest virtue of the Teutons, 
blossoms around their campfires and is cultivated and fostered by 
them in a way done in no other male union that is reared on party 
politics. The threatened hanging on the gallows, with which they 
allege they want to exterminate homosexuals, is therefore only a 
horrible gesture that is supposed to make stupid people believe that 
the Hitler people, in the matter of male-to-male inclinations, are 
all as innocent as pigeons and pure as angels, just like the pious 
members of the Christian Society of the Virgin.... The public threat 
against the homosexuals has in the meantime not frightened any 
youth-friend or man-friend into deserting this party. One knows 
perfectly well that all those public threats are only paper masks" 
(Adolf Brand, publisher of the world's first homosexual magazine, 
Der Eigene, from an essay titled "Political Criminals: A Word About 
the Rohm Case" [1931] reprinted in Homosexualty and Male Bonding in 
Pre-Nazi Germany [Ossterhuis and Kennedy, p. 236f]

"History never repeats itself, man always does"

IN THE GOVERNMENT of THE THIRD REICH:

EYEWITNESS account of the Nazi sacking of the
Sex Research Institute of Berlin, May 6, 1934:

"Why was it then, since we were completely non-party, that our purely 
scientific Institute was the first victim which fell to the new 
regime? The answer to this is simple....We knew too much. It would 
be against medical principles to provide a list of the Nazi leaders 
and their perversions [but]... not ten percent of the men who, in 
1933, took the fate of Germany into their hands, were sexually 
normal.... Our knowledge of such intimate secrets regarding members 
of the Nazi Party and other documentary material -- we possessed 
about forty thousand confessions and biographical letters -- was the 
cause of the complete and utter destruction of the Institute of 
Sexology." (Ludwig L. Lenz, Assistant Director of the Institute, 
quoted in Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, 
[Duberman et al.] p. 369). After the "Roehm Purge:"

"...under the dictatorship it was not possible for anyone to put 
Hitler a question. Nobody asked him to explain how it was that if 
his purpose was to get rid of homosexuals, he really didn't rid 
himself of them but used them as the instruments of his own murder 
lust and still retained most of them as members of his personal 
entourage, as well as in key positions of the party organization and 
the government. Otto Strasser, in his book, The German St. 
Bartholemew's Night (which has not been published in English), 
mentions sixteen of these highly placed homosexualist officials who 
survived the massacres of June 30 and retained their posts" (Igra, 
op cit., p.82).

IN THE CAMPS:

"The head of our tent was a German. An assassin's face, fleshy lips, 
hands like wolf's paws. He was so fat he could hardly move. Like the 
leader of the camp he loved children....(Actually, this was not a 
disinterested affection: there was a considerable traffic in young 
children among homosexuals here, I learned later) [Wiesel, Night, P. 
59].

"Max Bielas had a harem of little Jewish boys. He like them young, 
no older than seventeen. He had a kind of parody of the shepherds of 
Arcadia, their role was to take care of the camp flock of geese. 
They were dressed like little princes.... Bielas had a little 
barracks built for them that looked like a doll's house.... Bielas 
sought in Treblinka only the satisfaction of his homosexual 
instincts" [Steiner, Treblinka, p. 117f].

"If the camp doctor happened to pass by after a mass whipping, and 
knew that a certain type of homosexual Scharfurhrer [Platoon Leader] 
and SS officer stood at a certain gate, he arranged a little special 
entertainment for them, which he called a medical examination" 
(Poller, Medical Block Buchenwald, p. 103).

Of SPECIAL NOTE:

Heinrich Himmler is cited by homosexuals as the chief Nazi 
"homophobe," but his actions did not reflect his rhetoric.

"Homosexuality, meanwhile, continued on into the war years when 
Hitlerjunge [Hitler Youth] boys frequently became victims of 
molestations at the hands of the SS tutors; Himmler consistently 
took a hard line against it publicly but was quite willing to 
mitigate his penalties privately and keep every incident as secret 
as possible" (Remple, Hitler's Children: Hitler Youth and the SS, p. 
51f).

"On October 29, 1937...Himmler advised that actors and other artists 
could be arrested for offenses against paragraph 175 only with his 
personal consent, unless the police caught them in flagrante" 
(Plant, The Pink Triangle, p. 116).

Filmmaker Walter Frenz, who worked closely with the Nazi elite 
including a stint as Hitler's private filmmaker, is reported to have 
traveled "to the Eastern front with Himmler `whose pederastic 
proclivities he captured on film'" (Washingtion City Paper, April 4, 
1995). Pederasty is homosexuality between men and boys.

CONCLUSION:

The International Committee for Holocaust Truth calls upon the 
community of right-thinking people around the world to stand against 
the exploitation of the Holocaust by homosexual political activists. 
We who love truth must be vigilant in its defense.

This task will not be without cost. As many before us have learned, 
challenging the homosexual movement draws immediate and powerful 
attacks from "gay rights" organizations and gay influenced media and 
institutions. For this very reason we must persevere. Perhaps if 
truth-loving Germans had fought effectively against the "political 
correctness" of their day there would have been no Holocaust.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The International Committee for Holocaust Truth recommends prompt 
correction of Holocaust education programs to reflect historical 
accuracy as put forth in these pages.

* Inclusion of information about Nazi homosexuals in all Holocaust 
education that now portrays homosexuals as victims along with Jews 
designated for extermination.

* Dissemination of research on the subject of homosexuality in the 
Nazi Party.

* Cessation of all public funding of Holocaust museums and education 
until homosexuals are removed as "victims" of the Nazis.

* There follows a suggested statement as an alternative to the 
current inaccurate portrayal of homosexuals in the Holocaust:

Homosexuals arrested under German anti-sodomy laws were sometimes 
sent to Nazi work camps. Some died of disease and were used in 
medical experiments. Homosexuality was discouraged as being in 
conflict with the population goals of theThird Reich. Some 
homosexuals were arrested by the Nazis. Others were instrumental in 
the formation and development of the Nazi Party and held high 
positions in the Third Reich.

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