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   From: rectum-lickers@glaad.org   
      
   After the end of World War II in Europe, homosexual prisoners of   
   liberated concentration camps were refused reparations and some   
   were even thrown into jail without credit for their time served   
   in the camps. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:   
      
   After the war, homosexual concentration camp prisoners were not   
   acknowledged as victims of Nazi persecution, and reparations   
   were refused. Under the Allied Military Government of Germany,   
   some homosexuals were forced to serve out their terms of   
   imprisonment, regardless of the time spent in concentration   
   camps. The 1935 version of Paragraph 175 remained in effect in   
   the Federal Republic (West Germany) until 1969, so that well   
   after liberation, homosexuals continued to fear arrest and   
   incarceration.   
      
   After 1945, it was no longer a crime to be Jewish in Germany,   
   but homosexuality was another matter. Paragraph 175 of the   
   German Criminal Code had been on the books since 1871. An   
   English translation of the earliest version read simply:   
      
   Unnatural fornication, whether between persons of the male sex   
   or of humans with beasts, is to be punished by imprisonment; a   
   sentence of loss of civil rights may also be passed.   
      
   In Germany, homosexuality was considered a crime worthy of up to   
   five years of imprisonment until Paragraph 175 was voided in   
   1994.   
      
   Update: I missed this while writing the post: Paragraph 175 was   
   amended in 1969 to limit enforcement to engaging in homosexual   
   acts with minors (under 21 years). (thx, eric)   
      
   http://kottke.org/15/02/the-reimprisonment-of-homosexuals-in-   
   germany-after-wwii   
         
      
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