North Suran wrote:The genocide against the Poles was on a far more insignificant scale than that of the Jews, which is why the latter tends to receive more coverage than the former.
That being said, I do agree that the other victims of the Holocaust tend to get ignored far too often. Even in the normal concentration camps, it seems that all the prisoners are Jews. This ignores the myriad of other groups detained in the camps, such as Romanis (gypsies), political dissentors and homosexuals. The homosexuals got it especially bad, as they were bullied by both the camp staff and their fellow prisoners. To top it all off, when the homosexuals were finally released, those who ended up in the Federal Republic of Germany were despatched immediately to prison under Paragraph 175. While the German Democratic Republic was no paradise, at least it was quick to suspend its anti-homosexuality laws; Paragraph 175 was only suspended in the FDR in 1994, when it had been rendered redundant in the GDR in 1957.
Actually in the higher echelons of the nazi party as well as the Hitler Youth Homosexuality was practiced and tolerated