Is undue emphasis given to the Jews killed in the Holocaust?

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Personally I don’t think it’s emphasised enough given the extraordinarily degree of anti-semitism rooted in the same lies that continues to exist. However there is a lack of discussion in the public arena about other victims. The Roma’s story has not been written down, or fully understood due to the secretive nature of the Roma in divulging what happened to family members.

For the gays, we have the horrible realisation that what happened during the holocaust in terms of Nazi experimentation; hormone treatment, aversion therapy, castration, electric shock treatment, abuse etc continued after the war in liberal democracies (see Alan Turing) Some of their ‘treatments’ continue to be used the world over including ‘ex gay’ sham groups in the States. Many victims couldn’t speak about their experiences because it was still a criminal offence in Germany after the war.