The German Embassy in London has forwarded a report to the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Bonn, setting out proposals to remedy the injustices suffered by gay holocaust victims.
The proposals were made by OutRage! during a meeting at the German Embassy with the First Counsellor for Legal and Consular Affairs, Herr Rainer Dobbelstein.
The Embassy has also forwarded to Bonn details from OutRage! of the Nazi doctors, Gerhard Schiedlausky and Carl Værnet, who medically abused gay prisoners at Buchenwald. (Dr. Værnet's 'experiments' included castration and hormone implants.)
OutRage! has formally asked the German Government to track down these doctors and, if they are still alive, to bring them to trial on charges of 'crimes against humanity'.
The OutRage! proposals in full are that the German Government should:
"Herr Dobbelstein seemed sympathetic to the idea of redress
for gays who suffered in the holocaust", said Huw Williams,
who was part of the OutRage! delegation to the Embassy.
"But he was defensive on the issues of educational programmes
and pension rights, arguing that the climate of economic austerity
made it difficult for the German Government to be as generous
as it would like. He also claimed that holocaust memorials
already mention the Nazi witch-hunts of gay people. Some do:
but others don't. Often the acknowledgement is a tiny, obscure
reference that many visitors would never notice".
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