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The persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.
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1991 (English translation), Massimo Consoli (original author), Homocaust: From the Reform of Soviet Codes in 1934 to the Slaughter in Nazi Fields: Persecution of Homosexuals in Russia Under Stalin and in Germany Under Hitler (originally in Italian: 1984, Massimo Consoli, Homocaust: il nazismo e la persecuzione degli omosessuali)
Much of lesbian/gay history claims that the Nazis pursued a campaign against homosexual men, similar to the mass murder of Jews, which lead^([sic]) to a Homocaust, the systematic extermination of homosexual men. In an article published in 2002, Jim Steakley, an American activist and historian, looks back self-critically at how he and others contributed to the myth of a Homocaust in the early 1970s (Steakly 2002: 55, also Jellonek and Lautmann 2002: 12).