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Two explicit paragraphs about homosexuals that were edited out of a teacher's guide about the Holocaust will be sent to Georgia teachers after a compromise was reached between a state agency and gay activists.

The paragraphs, which describe Nazi persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust, were deleted from the 92-page guide by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust before it was mailed to teachers.

The deletion angered gay activists. After a meeting Sunday with the Georgia Equality Project, a gay advocacy group, the commission agreed to mail the two paragraphs in a separate letter to teachers who had ordered the guide

The guide is titled "Triangles, Badges & Stars: Remembering the Mosaic of Victims of the Holocaust."

The paragraphs were originally deleted by the commission out of concern that they were too sexually graphic for young students.


'An affront to the Nazi macho image'

"All items will be distributed at no taxpayer expense and with an advisement that some of the material in every section of the teacher guide is of a sensitive nature and should be presented in an age-appropriate manner," the statement said.

"The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust regrets the misunderstanding that has arisen between the Commission and the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered) Community," the statement said.

The deleted paragraphs read as follows:


"German male homosexuals were targeted and arrested because they would not breed the master race: they were an affront to the Nazi macho image."


The doors of the third (cattle) car open and the homosexuals spill forth, males only, because as Himmler concluded, 'lesbians can give birth.' The taunting jeers, and blows of the guards stun the men. They will stay a night and then be rerouted to Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald to be with their kind. The pink triangle they will soon wear is a result of a judgment that they have broken Article 175A, by sexual act, by kissing, by embracing, by fantasy and thought. Some will be given an opportunity to recant by successfully completing sexual activity with a woman in the camp brothel. Most others will find themselves tormented from all sides as they struggle to avoid being assaulted, raped, worked and beaten to death."

Providing the missing paragraphs separately will allow teachers to present the material "in an age-appropriate manner," said Harry Knox, director of the Georgia Equality Project.

Knox agreed that the extended descriptions of the Nazis' crimes are "horrifying." But, he added, "everything about the Holocaust should horrify us."


Mailing will include Holocaust Museum material

"Erasing persecution of gays from the history of the Holocaust repeats the tragic silence of most Germans in the Nazi years," Knox said.

Similar guides that included the paragraphs in question were sent to teachers in Florida and California.

Also included in the mailings with the two paragraphs will be information produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington concerning the treatment of homosexuals, the handicapped and Jehovah's Witnesses by the Nazis.

In addition to the 6 million Jews killed during World War II, homosexual males were also targeted by Nazis, along with other religious groups, Gypsies, Communists, African-Germans and the mentally and physically disabled.

why are they editing this gays and lesbians (like me) have a right to know.

i'm a lesbian and it doesn't upset me . it is important history all be it sad cry

I don't know why they took it out. We should know this. It's history, and in order to not make the mistakes that our ancestors made long ago, we should KNOW what the mistakes were.