Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Ernst Rohm, Paragraph 175, Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, Tabu Homosexualitat, Magnus Hirschfeld, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Schoneberg, Harden-Eulenburg Affair, Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft, Wilhelm Heckmann, Adolf Brand, The Malicious Practices Act 1933, Victims of the Night of the Long Knives, Blomberg-Fritsch Affair, Ernst Burchard, Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, John Henry Mackay, Schwules Museum, Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism, Der Eigene, Centrum Schwule Geschichte, The Hidden Hitler, Karl Ernst, Memorial to gay and lesbian victims of National Socialism, Edmund Heines, Ferdinand Karsch, Frankfurter Engel, Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality. Excerpt: Paragraph 175 (known formally as 175 StGB; also known as Section 175 in English) was a provision of the German Criminal Code from 15 May 1871 to 10 March 1994. It made homosexual acts between males a crime, and in early revisions the provision also criminalized bestiality. All in all, around 140,000 men were convicted under the law. The statute was amended several times. The Nazis broadened the law in 1935; in the prosecutions that followed, thousands died in concentration camps. East Germany reverted to the old version of the law in 1950, limited its scope to sex with youths under 18 in 1968, and abolished it entirely in 1988. West Germany retained the Nazi-era statute until 1969, when it was limited to "qualified cases"; it was further attenuated in 1973, and finally revoked entirely in 1994 after German reunification. In 1922 the leftist journalist Kurt Hiller published a collection of essays protesting Paragraph 175. The title translates as The Disgrace of the Century!Paragraph 175 was adopted in 1871, shortly after Germany was unified. Beginning in the 1890s, sexual reformers fought against the "disgraceful...