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This is a nonfiction reference book, pulled from the Youth Reference shelf of a public library and found in some Oklahoma public schools. What if a child decides to write a paper on the false myth that homosexuals faced mass persecution compared to that of the Jews? What if they have to write such a paper and find this as a potentially “reliable” source for information?
This book is about 89 pages long, with the remainder of pages (90-102) ending with a timeline, references, glossary, etc.
It starts explaining World War II, the “Master Race,” Polish Victims, Russians, Gypsies. On page 75 begins Chapter 5, The Race Criminals, which discusses homosexuals:
“It was common knowledge within the Nazi Party that SA commander Ernst Rohm and many of his top lieutenants were practicing homosexuals (75-76).”
“…Hitler ordered a purge…Ernst Rohm and nearly one hundred others were executed….Hitler ordered all SA Commanders and party leaders to expel homosexuals from their ranks…The Nazi war on homosexuals had begun (76-77).”
“He [Himmler] despised homosexuals because they would not marry and have children (79).”
“By order of Heinrich Himmler, they [the homosexuals] were transferred to concentration camps…marked by the pink triangle…targets of exceptional brutality…favorite method of killing them was to beat them to death…homosexual-hating, guards and fellow prisoners would attack…death rates were high…ten to fifteen thousand were imprisoned in various camps throughout the Reich (81-83).”
From Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams’ book, The Pink Swastika , 4th Edition: “The Roehm Purge was driven by political (my emphasis added), not moral concerns. Hitler feigned disgust and outrage about the homosexuality of the SA leaders to justify himself to the German people (195, 197).”
This book note four excerpts from other historians to support this statement. “…Roehm Purge was not motivated by the homosexuality of its victims. The great majority of victims were not homosexual at all (199).”
Lively points out that Hitler did not completely eliminate homosexuals from his regime: “…review of the historic record reveals that Hitler continued not only to surround himself with homosexuals, but to place them in key positions in the Third Reich (205).”
Hitler was a demagogue that killed Rohm & Company because of power and paranoia. Furthermore, the book in question also uses the word “claimed” in discussing the “moral cleansing” of the Nazi Party.
Chapter 6 of The Pink Swastika is in re: Homosexuality in the Concentration Camps. At the end of the Chapter, Lively has a table styled “Debunking the ‘Gay’ Holocaust Myth by Comparing ‘Gays’ to Jews,” and some of the notations are as follows:
Lively/Abrams wrote a well-documented book on this and updated it often. They even note the Purge as one of the most commonly used reasons to push the homosexual agenda.
As such, my conclusion is that The Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust IS a bad book.
Any book that promotes misleading history, be it a small five page chapter or an entire book, takes away from the application of knowledge. Additionally, homosexuality should not be, in any way, taught in the classroom.
M. Lyn