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Traces the history of the homosexual movement in Germany from the responses of the medical and psychoanalytical professions in the s to the push for homosexual emancipation during the early years of this century. Highlights Museum resources, including articles, bibliographies, and educational materials, on the topic of homosexuals in the Holocaust. Volume 5 in a series produced by the Neuengamme memorial site on National Socialism in northern Germany. Includes footnotes and a bibliography. Short Title: Gay Stuff in the Park? Founded Details developments of legal policies and social attitudes towards gays and lesbians in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A senior US officer and former Nato commander sparked outrage in the Netherlands today by declaring that gay soldiers in the Dutch military were one of the reasons for the Srebrenica massacre , the worst act of mass murder in Europe committed since the second world war. That was the largest massacre in Europe since world war two. The Dutch government and military responded with anger and contempt after General John Sheehan, a retired marine corps officer who was Nato's supreme commander at the time of the atrocity, told a US Senate hearing that gay soldiers in the military could result in events like Srebrenica. This article is more than 11 years old.