How+were+the+Homosexuals+treated+differently?

Q:How were they treated differently? A: Homosexuals were accepted more openly in Germany than anywhere else in the world before WWII. When Hitler rose to power homosexuals, who were part of the Nazi party, were killed. These men were marked with the pink triangle to signify that they were gay. From 1939-45 around 100,000 men were arrested as being homosexuals. 15,000 of these men were sent to concentration camps, they died quicker than most others. In the prison camps the men were not just persecuted by the Nazis, but also by the other prisoners for being gay. The gays were not usually sent to the gas chambers, but were usually worked to death. Many scientists believed that there was a gay gene, so they conducted experiments to find the gay gene in the homosexuals. “ After the war, the treatment of homosexuals in concentration camps went unacknowledged by most countries, and some men were even re-arrested and imprisoned based on evidence found during the Nazi Years.” (Wikipedia) The antigay laws were not repealed in Germany until 1994. [|Click Here] for more information to go to home page, click here