Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: The lower legislative chamber of Germany, the Bundestag, is commemorating on Friday those who were killed by the Nazis, with a special focus on people who were persecuted due to their sexual orientation.
It is for the first time that LGBTQ people are a special focus of the parliament’s annual commemoration of victims of the Nazi rule, which comes as International Holocaust Remembrance Day is being observed internationally.
Bundestag president Barbel Bas said that all the victims who were threatened, persecuted, murdered, and disenfranchised by the Nazis should be always remembered.
She said that the Holocaust victims would remain unforgotten, according to a Western media outlet.
Commemoration on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The commemoration came on International Holocaust Remembrance Day which marks the day when Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz, on 27 January 1945.
In Holocaust, about six million Jews were killed by the Nazis and their allies.
Thousands of lesbians, gay, transexual, and bisexual people were imprisoned and killed by the Nazis.
