LGBT Persecution During The Holocaust

If one hates someone or something that means they have an intense dislike towards them. Sometimes this hate can be so large it can be an influence for mass destruction. We have learned, or even have seen examples of hate turning into something bigger throughout our history. These examples include the multiple wars, terrorist’s attacks, and genocides. Many of these incidents were drove by hate, and did not end well. What drives this hate? How can people turn on one another with just feeling hate towards them? The Holocaust being one of the many genocides in our history was indeed influenced by an intense dislike. That intense dislike was towards certain types of people it ended up taking multiple lives.

In this Gays and lesbians deserve equal protection against the hate crimes that happen in the world. Aren't we told as young children and also throughout life to treat others as we would want to be treated? So why are some decimated against based on sexual preference? The statistics show the percentages of the hate discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community. The violence that they are pitted against, due to people's discrimination against them, in life. And I will also mention the discrimination that the LGBT community goes through and what they miss out based on sexual preference.

Microaggressions are one problem that ‘furthers’ this prejudice. As said in the study, “microaggressions were subtle and sometimes emotionally charged experiences that were encountered by the majority of the participants…” (Dispenza 71) Microaggressions are, as the word implies, small or subdued bouts of hostility. These microaggressions prove that violence against a minority, however small, is still ongoing. Moving on, another issue that spurs on transphobia is oppression from even inside the lgbt community itself. As also illustrated by the study, “Majority of participants described circumstances of being discriminated against by members of the LGB community because of their gender.” (Dispenza 72) This horizontal oppression, as they call it, is toxic. It relates to how nazis somewhat sacrificed jews because they were too scared to fight the ideology that the nazis perpetuated. The third problem is the fact of discrimination of housing for trans people, and its obvious ties to the holocaust. This type of discrimination is made clear in the study when they say, “A few of the participants reported difficulty with accessing or maintaining residential living facilities.” (Dispenza 74) If this isn’t an obvious example of inequity and favoritism, then one might never understand. This connects to the holocaust in an obvious way; the jews were put into ghettos, and

Almost six million Jews and over 220,000 gypsies were murdered in gas chambers and furnaces, as well as from extreme fatigue, malnourishment, and illnesses. Nazis believed that Jews were the cause of all of Germany’s problems and, therefore, should be eradicated. Gypsies were seen as outcasts, with no place to fit in. Hitler ordered them to be exiled for having their own vernaculars and traditions. Homosexuals, primarily men, were also persecuted for their ways of life. Around 15,000 homosexuals were imprisoned in camps, and an estimated 10,000 were murdered. Unfortunately, Nazis were not the only ones guilty of killing homosexuals; fellow inmates of

The Holocaust was a tragic event filled with murder, abuse and dehumanization mirroring its true meaning sacrifice by fire. During the Holocaust Nazi (A German political party) killed Jews and anyone the Germans thought were not Aryan. The Nazis blamed the Jews for the reason Germany lost WWI so Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's invaded Poland started WWII by killing all Jews and non Aryans. In Elie Wiesel’s Night Wiesel’s experiences of dehumanization are reflection through, mental abuse, physical abuse, and starvation.

Hate crime is a prejudice-motivated crime in which a person is verbally or physically attacked solely based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or other prejudice. These hate crimes are often involved with violence and can be identified as threats, vandalism, assaults, and hate propaganda. One notable hate crime is the Holocaust which was the Nazi’s persecution of the Jewish people - where Jewish people were targeted which led to at least 6 million deaths of the Jewish community. After WW2, laws were created to prevent an event like Holocaust from ever happening again. Even with these laws the number of hate crimes are actually increasing however, majority of the world are now ready to stand together against all

The Holocaust was a tragic period in the world where Germans persecuted anyone they felt was inferior to them, mostly Jews. Millions of lives were persecuted for nothing. It has been about 80 years since the Holocaust. Nazi’s who participated in the Holocaust are now almost a decade old. But, that doesn’t exempt them from their crimes. Survivors and souls that have died need justice. Getting older shouldn’t exempt them from the crimes they have committed, if persecution of these criminals isn’t remembered, then it isn’t really justice, and a single person is responsible for their actions they know right from wrong, and they knew what they were doing was wrong.

Media had a significant impact on the gender. Due to how people judging LGBTTQ people, it showed people always judge by reading the cover of book only instead of putting themselves into their shoes. People online usually judge others by hearing what other people said, but not what they really see and feel. A reason for this was people nowadays have already used to communicate with each others through media and forgot the real world outside. The outcome suggests that people should stand out their comfort zone and try to respect different gender of people. Since LGBTTQ are human also, they deserve what regular person does and people should always put themselves into other people’s

The Holocaust was an example of extreme institutional racism and remembering the events is a good way to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. This requires an understanding of tolerance and why people lack it. If we figure this out, we can teach against these habits and rehabilitate those who have them to make the world better.

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, legal is defined as “conforming to or permitted by law or established rule” (merriam webster). It then defines moral as, “expressing or teaching a conception or right behavior” (merriam webster). Dr. King gives a touching look at the difference between legality and morality with the example of events that took place with Germany under the leadership of Hitler. He explains that in Nazi Germany, it was “legal” to abuse and humiliate Jews. He then states that the comforting and aiding to Jews in Nazi Germany was illegal. While the first is legal and the second is illegal, what is legal is blatantly immoral whereas what is illegal is boldly moral. The abuse and mistreatment of Jews during the

Homosexual men were sent to work camps and persecuted by the Nazis. Homosexual men, if caught, would either be sent to prison or work camps. One man, Friedrich Paul, was arrested in Luebeck and sent to a camp. “I was imprisoned for 10 months… in 1938 I was re-arrested, humiliated, and tortured.” (Paul).

The Jewish race lived in a time of hardships in the mid 1900’s as the Nazis began to take over Germany during the well-known era of the Holocaust. “The Nazis, who came to power in Germany on January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community (Children during the Holocaust).” Therefore, the Nazis began genocide with intentions to kill off all of the Jewish people under the command of Adolf Hitler. Many people were brutally tortured and murdered during this tragic time in Western Europe. However, Jewish children during the Holocaust were the most targeted and tortured groups of individuals.

Introduction To what extent does the Nazi persecution of Roma and the Nazi persecution of Jews mirror each other 1933-1945? The Holocaust has been studied a vast majority of times being one of the most crucial events in extermination and genocide of all History. The Nazis persecuted a large number of ethnicities, races or minorities that were a threat to their state. The most persecuted race was the Jews and being the race which get the most importance, still the Roma were also one of the most persecuted races.

In order to form these arrests, police made “pink lists” which had names of many men all over the country who were suspected of being homosexuals. They would raid homosexual meeting places, and arrest the men there. Police were told to identify them because they would most likely have a feminine touch to their appearance or scent. Gay men would often join the armed forces or marry lesbians trying to hide their sexuality. Lesbians weren’t targeted as much as gay men were. But, the ones who were targeted and sent to concentration camps, wore the black triangle that represented anti-social prisoners instead of the pink triangle. Gay men were harder to find than the other groups like Jews or Jehovah’s

70,243 disabled people were killed by Nazi T4 program during 1930s. With a long list of disabilities, deafness was one of those, and they had experienced brutally with Germany by being oppressed, forcefully obedient, and sterilized. Deaf people were the ones of first people that Nazi wanted to get rid of, and they were used as a test for Nazi to use at concentration camps for millions of Jews. With all of those tremulous occurrences to those deaf people, why didn’t anybody stop Nazi before it became worse? There are three reasons why because people were brainwashed, powerless, and ignorant.