Most individuals when questioned about the Holocaust would probably say that the Nazis slaughtered and massacred those of Jewish blood. But what most do not take into consideration, is that a handful of others suffered as a result of Hitler coming to power. Homosexuals, who had not been the main issue, got treated plenty worse than almost everyone else taken into Nazi custody. In this paper, we learn the background of Homosexual life during, as well as before the Holocaust that may have led up to this horrendous tragedy for this specific group. Though not the Nazi´s main issue, homosexuals deprived of their lives by the Nazis underwent treatment just as worse as any other group. The general opinion of the Nazis thought of gay men being weak, and they should not be apart of their nation. They did not want homosexuals to be what people saw when they thought of Germany. Also the Nazis wanted to continually be able to increase their population. People of the same sex are not able to reproduce, so the Nazis also saw them for this reason as a ¨racial threat,¨ as they saw any community unable to increase Germany’s birth rate (¨Charles D. Dunst¨). The Germans were always cautious of queer men, even dating back to 1871, were the anti-gay law in …show more content…
This was mainly because of the role of women as workers when it came to businesses. They did not act in any way as a danger to society according to the Germans, and most of the time, they could just go about their daily lives. They merely represented a passive community. Although the Nazis did believe that women were inferior to men, as well as being reliant on them, by nature. But, it was regarded as criminal to try to influence women into lesbianism, so lesbian literature became banned. People were not permitted to try to influence others into a same sex relationship (“Lesbians and the Third