In 1928, the Nazi Party responded to a question about their position on Paragraph 175, the German law criminalizing homosexuality, writing that 'Anyone who even thinks of homosexual love is our enemy.' History Origins Nazi propaganda asserted that 'homosexual emancipation was a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the German Volk's morality'. Īccording to Laurie Marhoefer, a small number of gay men belonged to a covert faction within the Nazi party that favored gay emancipation while denigrating feminists, Jews, and leftists.
Adolf Hitler signed an edict that SS and police personnel would be subject to capital punishment if caught engaging in homosexual activity. Some underwent castration or other Nazi human experimentation aimed at 'curing' homosexuality. About 100,000 were arrested, 50,000 convicted and some 5,000 to 15,000 interned in Nazi concentration camps, where they were forced to wear pink triangle badges. In Nazi Germany, homosexuals were persecuted. Ernst Röhm, a prominent Nazi known for his homosexuality
