Nobody is allowed to be a victim but us, do you hear me? Nobody! NOBODY! NOBODY!!!!!!!
By Michael Baggot
A Jewish intellectual and holocaust survivor in a Wednesday interview deemed a new Berlin monument to homosexual Nazi victims scandalous for equating the Nazi's persecution of homosexuals with its persecution of Jews, reported Canwest News Service.
"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. A sense of proportion must be maintained."
The new Berlin monument to homosexual victims features video footage of two men kissing and sits across the street from Germany's national memorial to Jewish Holocaust victims.
The gray concrete of the new monument also imitates the makeup of the Jewish Holocaust monument opened three years earlier.
"This memorial is important from two points of view - to commemorate the victims, but also to make clear that even today, after we have achieved so much in terms of equal treatment, discrimination still exists daily," announced Berlin's actively homosexual mayor Klaus Wowereit at last Tuesday's inauguration.
The latest push to portray active homosexuals as victims of systematic Nazi attack contrasted with a recently growing body of evidence indicating a wide-scale Nazi embrace of homosexuality.
In a 2006 study, renowned expert on sexuality Judith A. Reisman revealed that while Hitler's "Mein Kampf" degraded Jews, Marxists, Negroes, Chinese, Arabs, women, and Eastern Europeans, the Fuhrer had no negative remarks for homosexuality. Instead, Hitler chose actively homosexual men as influential youth leaders.
According to Reisman, "The Pink Swastika" refuted the comparison between Nazi persecution of homosexuals and of Jews.
On Wednesday, Gutman noted that homosexual victims were "exclusively German." The Jewish intellectual added that many persecuted homosexuals were themselves Nazis and were "victims of internal political battles within the NSDAP [Hitler's Nazi Party]."
"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. A sense of proportion must be maintained."
The new Berlin monument to homosexual victims features video footage of two men kissing and sits across the street from Germany's national memorial to Jewish Holocaust victims.
The gray concrete of the new monument also imitates the makeup of the Jewish Holocaust monument opened three years earlier.
"This memorial is important from two points of view - to commemorate the victims, but also to make clear that even today, after we have achieved so much in terms of equal treatment, discrimination still exists daily," announced Berlin's actively homosexual mayor Klaus Wowereit at last Tuesday's inauguration.
The latest push to portray active homosexuals as victims of systematic Nazi attack contrasted with a recently growing body of evidence indicating a wide-scale Nazi embrace of homosexuality.
In a 2006 study, renowned expert on sexuality Judith A. Reisman revealed that while Hitler's "Mein Kampf" degraded Jews, Marxists, Negroes, Chinese, Arabs, women, and Eastern Europeans, the Fuhrer had no negative remarks for homosexuality. Instead, Hitler chose actively homosexual men as influential youth leaders.
According to Reisman, "The Pink Swastika" refuted the comparison between Nazi persecution of homosexuals and of Jews.
On Wednesday, Gutman noted that homosexual victims were "exclusively German." The Jewish intellectual added that many persecuted homosexuals were themselves Nazis and were "victims of internal political battles within the NSDAP [Hitler's Nazi Party]."
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