Gays Prosecuted by Nazis to Be Pardoned
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From Times Wire Reports
Germany’s Parliament passed legislation allowing about 50,000 gay men prosecuted by the Nazis because of their sexuality to be pardoned, even posthumously.
The legislation also amended a 1998 law to make it easier to quash convictions against deserters from the German army between 1933 and 1945.
Anti-gay measures passed in 1935 formed part of a Nazi philosophy that deemed homosexuals alien to the state’s aim to create a “super-race.” Those convicted faced up to 10 years in prison or concentration camps, where thousands died.
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