Holocaust Remembrance Day: In a first, German parliament spotlights Nazis' LGBTQ victims
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The German parliament will for the first time on Friday focus its annual Holocaust memorial commemorations on people persecuted and killed for their sexual or gender identity. Campaigners worked for two decades to establish an official ceremony for LGBTQ victims of the Nazis, saying their experience had long been forgotten or marginalised. FRANCE 24's Nick Spicer reports from Berlin, Germany.