"Along this bumpy road, skeptics have questioned what the pillars have to do with the Holocaust, attacked the decision to put the memorial in its high-profile location and wondered aloud about why it is for the Jews and not other Nazi victims."
I agree - Hitler killed gays, gypsies, the mentally retarded and any other undesirable. Why is it the Jews feel they "own" the Holocaust?
For some reason they are doing seperate memorials. There is another one in progress for the Roma and Sinti "Gypsies". But it would make more sense to have one memorial with a museum detailing all the people who suffered in the camps instead of potentially a hundred different ones.
1. The Nazis only killed "gays" if they were political enemies. Why the "gays" feel the need to "own" any part of the Holocaust is any body's guess.
2. The Nazis attempted the exterminate the entire Jewish race. They succeeded in killing 6 million of them, and virtually wiped out the Jewish population of Poland and Western Russia. You would probably want some sort of remembrance, too, if such a thing were to happen to your family.
3. The Holocaust claimed 11 million lives. Over half of them Jewish.