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Lessons Learned as a Gay Son of Holocaust Survivors
online. LGBTQ+ history has never gotten the attention it deserves. Germans are doing a better job of exploring the racial theories of the Nazi era and the atrocities committed, while segments of America want all negative parts of our history to be ignored or “whitewashed.”As a child of two German Jewish refugees whose family was enslaved and murdered in the decade before my birth, I want to tell the next American generation that Germany quickly turned from a democracy to a killing machine in only a few years.One of the earlier agencies that Hitler created was the Committee to Combat Homosexuality and Abortion.