• diverging@lemm.ee
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    [Because the various Allied countries considered homosexuality a crime, those prisoners who had not finished serving their sentence under Paragraph 175 had to do so]

    The 1935 version of Paragraph 175 – one of the few Nazi-era laws that remained in force and unaltered in West Germany – was upheld by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1957 and remained in force until 1969, when homosexuality was partially decriminalized.

    I suspect that this undead army would be happy with Trump’s attack against the LGBTQ

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        I was also talking about the Allies. The Allies kept homosexuals in prison when the camps were otherwise freed. The Allies kept the law banning homosexuality, while removing all the nazi era laws.

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          Never understood people of today trying to judge other people from yesterday’s gone by to the same morals standard that they have today.

          Humanity evolves forward, societies change from the past to the present and into the future.

          There was a lot of wrongs that societies of that day were doing, not only to homosexuals, but to people of different skin colors as well. But say what you will about it, we’re all here today to argue about it because they stepped up and did the thing that none of us had to do, fighting a global war where everything they know might go away and be replaced with evil.

          For that, we owe them a level of respect, and to judge them through a lens of time.

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        Sodomy was illegal in most of the allied countries as well, not just Nazi Germany.