When I was at Dachau. (Picture heavy)

[Behind the Aegis]

16. Thank you for sharing.

We were staying in Munich and took the train there. I must say there was a part of me that was a bit jarred as we pulled into the station and I looked out the window to see "Dachau" on a blue station marker.

We had a private tour from an American who is working on a PhD there. It was nice to have a very small group, just my family, because we could ask anything and everything we wanted. Of course, I was also highly irritated when we saw the memorial wall of triangles and I noticed, quickly, one color was missing: PINK. I asked why and he explained when it was built (65?), "homosexuals" weren't considered worthy of mention because they were "criminals" and they didn't want to "sully the reputations of other victims." I must say, that really pissed me off! As a matter of fact, though all three death camps tours, gay men were only mentioned as victims ONCE. Personally, the lack of inclusion made me feel the same way I do when I hear people talk poorly about Jews in regards to the Holocaust...angry. I don't think many realize how horrible gay men were treated in the camps and even after the war, when many were sent from the death camps to prisons to serve out there terms for violating the German law against homosexuality.

Thank you for sharing a very different perspective. I feel it adds to the narrative.