Gay people were among Nazis’ ‘forgotten victims’

Your recent feature “Rampant cannibalism in German concentration camp” made for sober reading.

Gay people were among Nazis’ ‘forgotten victims’

The mention of the German government awarding compensation to survivors remaining alive in 1964 is not entirely true.

While most categories of camp inmates were compensated, the Federal Republic of Germany held out for several decades in compensating internees who had been incarcerated by the Nazis on the basis of their sexual orientation.

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