In American ideologies, the Holocaust has become synonymous with Jewish history. Understandably, Holocaust historiography has emphasized the Jewish people as they were the group most persecuted by the Nazis, but why did they become the sole focus? It became easy to forget that the war waged by Hitler and his accomplices was a war that went far beyond the simple eradication of the Jewish people. Records kept by the Germans show that they exterminated millions of communists, Czechs, Greeks, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, mentally and physically handicapped people, Poles, resistance fighters, Russians, Serbs, socialists, Spanish republicans, trade unionists, Ukrainians, Yugoslavs, prisoners of war of various nations, homosexuals and others, whose graves could remain forever without plaques. Homosexual men went through a particularly difficult time after the war, forced into silence, locked up in Soviet prisons, and their names disappeared from memorials. Even during the war, homosexuals received special treatment including, but not limited to, separate barracks and harsher punishments. Furthermore, many of these men were also victims of numerous different experiments. This transition was made even more difficult considering the near-revolutionary years leading up to World War II. As time has passed it has become increasingly clear that homosexuals suffered physical and mental abuse during the Holocaust and in subsequent years. The suffering of homosexuals should not go unnoticed and they should be remembered as true victims of the Holocaust. As previously mentioned, the period before the Holocaust was often referred to as the “golden 1920s” for homosexuals and also for the general population. Despite this period in which he was homosexual...... middle of paper ......g he was ashamed of his imprisonment because he was in prison for being gay. His story is common among gay survivors. Their experiences were kept hidden because no one wanted to hear their stories and they didn't want to tell them. Homosexuals were also denied the reparations offered to many other survivors. It hasn't always been a matter of simple recognition. In fact, in the case of one man they did just that. He received a letter from the British government apologizing for his suffering, which he had suffered and had suffered numerous mental and physical traumas. However, they would not give any compensation. To add insult to injury, it was also very difficult to find work as a known homosexual victim of the Holocaust. Once Germany was reunified and homosexuality became permissible, many LGBT groups wanted a memorial to homosexual victims..