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GAYS DEMAND SHARE OF LOOTED NAZI GOLD


Bid to win Compensation for Homosexuals persecuted by Hitler


      Members of OutRage! picketed the London conference on looted Nazi gold at Lancaster House today, Tuesday, 2nd December.

      The protesters held placards demanding "Compensate gay victims of Nazism".

      They were greeted with a friendly smile and a wave from British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, as he entered Lancaster House.

      Robin Cook's friendliness was surprising because the Foreign Office has opposed gay participation in the conference. Invitations were refused to the World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organisations and to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

      In contrast, Jewish and Gypsy groups were officially encouraged to participate, and are attending.

      We are angry that gay organisations have been excluded. Any decisions taken by this conference should reflect the just claims of everyone persecuted by the Nazis, including gay people.

      Where the owners of looted gold cannot be traced, it should be used to compensate holocaust victims who have been refused reparations by the German government, including East European Jews, slave labourers, and gay people.

      Some of the gold should be set aside to finance memorials, educational programmes, and museums in honour of the forgotten victims of Nazism, such as Gypsies, the disabled, homosexuals, and black people.

      OutRage! is proposing that gay community groups should receive a share of the looted gold, to help finance:


Triangle



Dr. Værnet -- British Military Collusion?

Dr. Værnet -- Danish Correspondence

Redress for Gay Holocaust Victims -- German Embassy forwards OutRage! proposals to Bonn

Letter to Helmut Kohl -- Compensation for Nazi Victims


Simon Wiesenthal Center -- Assorted related items

BBC: Queen opens Holocaust exhibition 6-June-2000


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