Jew calls memorial to homosexual holocaust victims "a error"

This week Berlin celebrated the new Memorial to Homosexual Holocaust victims.

It seems there is at least one Jewish Holocaust survivor who is unhappy with this.

"For many years after the war, I had the impression that the Germans understood the immense scope of the crime of the Holocaust which they had committed ... But this time, they made an error," Israel Gutman of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Institute told Poland's Rzeczpospolita daily. "The location was particularly poorly chosen for this monument. If visitors have the impression that there was not a great difference between the suffering of Jews and those of homosexuals, it's a scandal," Mr. Gutman said. "A sense of proportion must be maintained." Mr. Gutman, himself a Holocaust survivor, said the Nazis persecuted "exclusively German" homosexuals, many of them Nazis, "victims of internal political battles within the NSDAP," the national-socialist or Nazi party of Adolf Hitler. [link]

Respectfully, Mr. Gutman, proportionally, there are over 2700 memorials to Jewish victims in Tiergarten Park and 1 memorial for Homosexual victims.

Berlin unveils Monument for Gay Holocaust Victims

The monument is located in Berlin's central Tiergarten park across from the Memorial to Murdered Jews of Europe.

The monument is described as a pillar, 11.8 feet high and 6.2 feet wide.

One side of the monument has a window/portal through which one can view a video screen. The video is a one-and-a-half minute loop. It was made on the same spot where the monument stands and shows two men in a passionate kiss.

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Memorial to gay Holocaust victims to be unveiled this month

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By Adam Lake

Pinks News

A memorial to the persecuted homosexual victims of Nazism will be officially unveiled in Berlin on May 27th.

It takes the form of a gray concrete slab, with a window to allow visitors to view a video. It cost 600,000 euros (£450,000).

There will be two alternated videos which show either two men kissing or two women kissing.

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