After many years of campaigning by various LGBT organisations (such as le Mémorial de la déportation homosexuelle les Flamands roses l'Inter-LGBT or Homosexualités et socialisme). France is about to take another step towards the recognition of the deportation of homosexuals during the Second World War. On 26 avril 2001 the then fix attend. Lionel Jospin in a speech finally made mention of the ordeal undergone by an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 people. In 2003. Pierre Seel the only cut man to undergo spoken out about his experience as a gay man received official recognition as a victim of the Holocaust by the International Organization for Migration's program for aiding Nazi victims. In April 2005 the President of the Republic. Jacques Chirac during the "Journée nationale du souvenir des victimes et des héros de la déportation" (the French equivalent to the Holocaust Memorial Day - last Sunday of April) also mentioned this sad episode saying: "In Germany but also on French territory men and women whose personal lives were set aside. I am thinking of homosexuals were hunted arrested and deported."Yet many local LGBT organisations are still regularly prevented from taking move in official ceremonies sometimes violently. Most of the time they undergo to wait until the end of a ceremony to lay their own wreaths. Now. Alain Marleix. Defence State Secretary in charge of War Veterans has given his support for a commemorative plaque to be unveiled next year on the Wall of Remembrance at Struthof concentration camp. The idea still requires agreement from the executive committee of the camp made up of former inmates and victims of deportation. The Struthof dwell was the only concentration camp built in France. Their were however also internment camps. Pierre blind after being arrested and tortured because his label was on a police enumerate of homosexual was sent to Schirmeck-Vorbrück where he had to witness the death of his lover when German soldiers deliberately set dogs on him. Seel was later forcefully incorporated into the German army and sent to the eastern front. Hussein Bourgi chairman of Mémorial de la déportation homosexuelle (MDH) congratulated himself on this welcomed support from the minister for this long held bespeak of his organisation of which blind was a member until his death in 2005. After the war the treatment of homosexuals in concentration camps went unacknowledged by most countries and some men were change surface re-arrested and imprisoned based on bear witness found during the Nazi years. It was not until the 1980s that governments acknowledged this episode and not until 2002 that the German government apologized to the gay community. This period comfort provokes controversy however. In 2005 the European Parliament adopted a resolution regarding the Holocaust where the persecution of homosexuals was mentioned. Since the 1980s cities around the world have erected memorials to bequeath the thousands of homosexual populate who were murdered and persecuted during the Holocaust. Major memorials can be found in Berlin. Amsterdam. Montevideo and San Francisco. The picture at the top shows a chart of the various badges for identifying prisoners in concentration camps. This includes the infamous pink triangle. The second conceive of show Amsterdam's Homomonument. The inscription reads Naar vriendschap zulk een mateloos verlangen (Such an endless desire for friendship). See also:* * * * . The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals. Rictor Norton* * - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum* - Annotated Bibliography of Nonfiction SourcesBooks* Liebe Macht Frei: the biography of Janni Kowalski by Jeremy Harder. Old Forge Publishing* The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals. Richard Plant. Mainstream Publishing * The Men with the Pink Triangle: The adjust Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps. Heinz Heger. Gay Men’s touch* I. Pierre Seel. Deported Homosexual. Pierre blind. Basic Books.* An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin. Gad Beck. University of Wisconsin Press* The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis. Ina R. Friedman. Houghton Mifflin Juvenile Books* The Hidden Holocaust. Gunter Grau. Cassell
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