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[deleted] t1_ixn2s25 wrote

Reply to comment by Cetun in TIL about Willem Arondeus, a gay painter and artist. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands he joined the dutch resistance. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. He was caught and executed soon after his arrest. by Random_German_Name

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Cetun t1_ixn3ok6 wrote

They are the allies, homosexuality was a criminal offense in Britain and the United States, therefore when the concentration camps were liberated innocent camp prisoners such as Jews and political prisoners were separated from prisoners that had committed some sort of offense. Since homosexuality was an offense under German law under British law and under United States law it only made sense to the allies that homosexuals should remain in custody until they served out their sentence. As another redditor pointed out their time in the concentration camp did not count towards their sentence so they would remain in prison after the war to complete their full sentence.

I am saying, had he been captured and put inside of a concentration camp he would have been kept in one after the war. Let's also not forget that after the war they prosecuted Alan Turning, despite being a war hero. Arondeus maintaining a status of open homosexuality would have been prosecuted by the very allied coalition he was helping.

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[deleted] t1_ixn42a3 wrote

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Cetun t1_ixn5xj6 wrote

You don't think people in concentration camps were taken from other countries? If he was arrested by the Nazis for being a homosexual he would remain in a concentration camp until he served out his sentence, despite the fact that he was fighting for the allies. It's not a stretch in this post he's clearly celebrated for being gay, a classification that would see him persecuted by the very governments liberating his country. There is an irony and injustice in that that should be addressed. It's fine to talk about how the Nazis persecuted homosexuals, but it's off limits to talk about how the Allies persecuted homosexuals? We can only get some sense of justice by pointing out what the Nazis was bad but it's off limits to talk about injustices continued by the Allies? Gays in Allied controlled concentration camps don't get memorials?

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