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Bluenorthwest

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12. Sure.
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 04:11 PM
Jun 2015

There is much documentation. The Nazi era anti gay laws remained on the books in Germany. No social assistance or reparation was ever given to the gay victims and not one person was punished for their crimes against gay people.

"Homosexuals continued to suffer, even with the end of the war. Paragraph 175 of the German legal code stated that male homosexuality, but not female lesbianism, was punishable by imprisonment. After 1943, male homosexuals had been forced to wear a pink triangle and were sent to the death camps. After the liberation, the Americans did not repeal Paragraph 175 and sent homosexual inmates liberated from the camps to other prisons."
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/usarmy_holo.html

http://www.hardenet.com/homocaust/liberationforothers.htm

http://www.stop-homophobia.com/thegayholocaust.htm

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When the allies liberated the camps, they did not release the gay prisoners but transfered them Bluenorthwest Jun 2015 #1
Can you post sources to support this claim that homosexuals were detained while others were freed? Pooka Fey Jun 2015 #5
Sure. Bluenorthwest Jun 2015 #12
According to the link you posted, Germany processed reparations to gays in 2000 Pooka Fey Jun 2015 #21
Atheists and Atheist leaders weren't any better. bananas Jun 2015 #33
Next he will blame us atheists. Big Slim Jun 2015 #2
Are you holding this Pope responsible for all the horrible acts committed by the Catholic Church Cal33 Jun 2015 #10
they are. if that is true, then they have to be personally responsible for the roguevalley Jun 2015 #30
Right you are. And one man can only do so much. This Pope hit the ground Cal33 Jun 2015 #40
Do you have a link or other reference to your statement that Hitler was blackmailing the church? JDPriestly Jun 2015 #11
see link for pics that might have been... still are embarrassing NotHardly Jun 2015 #14
I know that the leadership of the Catholic Church supported Hitler, but I am asking about JDPriestly Jun 2015 #15
Try googling it ... research is our friend NotHardly Jun 2015 #16
Any evidence of that? Kingofalldems Jun 2015 #20
Hitler did receive support from a very prominent clergyman... ColesCountyDem Jun 2015 #36
Very true about Haj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti. JDPriestly Jun 2015 #39
face palm PatrynXX Jun 2015 #22
Americans systematically exterminated and marginalized native people putting them into roguevalley Jun 2015 #27
There were 2.3 million combat sorties in the period 1941-45. former9thward Jun 2015 #37
The Allies could have diverted a lot of those sorties.... happyslug Jun 2015 #41
Let's remember that he was also referring to Bush forest444 Jun 2015 #3
JPII had President Peepants' number on that one MisterP Jun 2015 #24
His church failed to act, embraced mussolini Warren Stupidity Jun 2015 #4
he didn't. he's trying to make change. If he's got the historical guilt burden, get a history roguevalley Jun 2015 #28
He's lecturing others for their past behavior Warren Stupidity Jun 2015 #31
this guy is on the case!!!! heaven05 Jun 2015 #6
Bingo (no pun intended). forest444 Jun 2015 #7
I do understand heaven05 Jun 2015 #9
The Catholic Church also knew of the Holocaust and did very little if anything to discourage JDPriestly Jun 2015 #8
So when the Pope uses denigrating speech about LGBT people and claims fighting our rights is God's Bluenorthwest Jun 2015 #13
Why on earth do you think Francis is under constant attack from the traditionalists? Joe Chi Minh Jun 2015 #17
Francis IS a traditionalist conservative. NYC Liberal Jun 2015 #18
You wanted him to change 2000 years of church history; and Benedict before him. Joe Chi Minh Jun 2015 #25
He doesn't WANT to change it. That's the point. NYC Liberal Jun 2015 #34
he has already begun to embrace people restorefreedom Jun 2015 #19
He's "embraced" us by calling our relationships "evil" NYC Liberal Jun 2015 #35
he said all people need to be treated with love and charity restorefreedom Jun 2015 #38
yes I do think he should slam himself PatrynXX Jun 2015 #23
Well, I don't. I think Pius XII was derelict, to say the least, but alas that Tridentine Joe Chi Minh Jun 2015 #26
then tell me your country and I will tell you what shame you need to work on roguevalley Jun 2015 #29
Wonder pope is lecturing other institutions Warren Stupidity Jun 2015 #32
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