re: #90 RadicalModerate

Roughly 100,000 gays were rounded up and arrested by the Nazis. Gays were one of the groups who were sent to concentration camps.
Not in the sheer numbers of Jews or the Roma, but still a significant number.

It is not about numbers. Gays were persecuted before and during the Holocaust. They were not specifically targeted during the Holocaust as some integral part of it, as Jews and Roma were (although the latter is often classified as a seperate event – Porajmos). They were sent to concentration camps, but the camps of the Holocaust that began operation in 1941 were much different from the camps set up in 1933 when the Nazis took power and started sending gays and communists there.