This writer is wrong to lump all these Nazi victim groups together, as if their fates were all the same. Auschwitz was predominantly used for the mass murder of Jews. The Nazis didn't have a genocide program against any other group. Statistics clearly show that in the Nazi cancentration camp system as a whole, non-Jewish prisoners had a much higher surivaival rate than Jewish prisoners, because they were not subject to anywhere near the same degree of deprivation.
What you post is, of course, absolutely true — but that is beside the point.
The point is to (mis)state that “homosexuals” were just as much a victim group as Jews and gypsies, when nothing could be further from the truth.
The primary victims of the Holocaust were Jews, gypsies and communists, with many other disparate groups (political opponents, Soviet army prisoners, et al) suffering as well.
But, the modern politically correct historiography simply cannot resist casting the oh so precious subculture of homosexuals into the role of “victims” so homosexuals can share in the victim cache.
It’s repulsive and disgusting, of course, but it has become so ingrained as to be ubiquitous.
>>>This writer is wrong to lump all these Nazi victim groups together, as if their fates were all the same. Auschwitz was predominantly used for the mass murder of Jews. The Nazis didn’t have a genocide program against any other group.
The Jews were the target of the Final Solution as a group, ie., a genocide. Very true. But, the author was absolutely correct to include Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled persons, and others because they were included and yes, they were at Auschwitz as well as the other camps. Matter of fact, the very first targeted people were anyone with military background. For those people were feared to stand up and say no first.
They were all sorted by the codes on their arms as to what class, group, religion, level of work code, medical experiment, etc. codes provided by IBM.
Reference:
http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com
IBM and the Holocaust