Today’s awkward headline: ‘Nazis left Dutch gays untouched’

Via NCR.NL:

The gay monument was established in 1987 to commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime who were “persecuted because of their homosexual feelings”.

In fact, very few of those people were persecuted in the Netherlands, says historian Anna Tijsseling.

Her conclusions counter the generally accepted view of Dutch homosexuals as victims of the Nazis. Tijsseling calls this image “a persistent fiction, created by the gay-emancipation movement in the 1970s.”