THE TIMELINE
The information below is a time line that I have collated together from my research, starting from 1871 with the original version of paragraph 175 right through to 1969 when the amended Nazi version of 1935 was repealed.
1871
Paragraph 175 came into effect in germany.
1900
Pink Lists’ compiled by the police for those who they suspect of being homosexual
1918
The First World War ended
1919
Ernst Rohm met Adolf Hitler in 1919
1920
1920 Ernst joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) where he helped organise the Sturmabeitung (SA)
1928
It was believed that 1.2 million men in germany were homosexual, after a survey had been comprised by the government.
1933
In 1933 Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany
March 6th Dachau the first concentration camp opens
On May 6th 1933 the Nazis ransacked the Institute For Sexual Science’ in Berlin.
1934
1934 Rohm and several other SA men arrested at their spa in Badweisee, Rohm imprisoned then executed along with the others, due to an alleged plot to over throw Hitler.
This event is more commonly known as the night of the long knives.
1935
Dr Magnus Hirschfield (1868 - 1935) in exile dies in France age 67.
September 1st 1935 an amended version of paragraph 175 (the criminal code which was originally framed in 1871) came in to effect.
1936
In 1936 Heinrich Himmler created the ’Reich Central Office’ for the combating of homosexuality and abortion. Special office (IIS) of the executive department 11 of the Gestapo was its name.
1937
Himmler gives a talk on the dangers of homosexuality in Bad Tolz on February 18th
1938
Hitler annexes Austria and the amended version of paragraph 175 comes into effect in Austria.
1939
Paragraph 175 brought the number of prosecutions to an increase peaking in the years of 1937 to 1939 in both Germany and the annexed Austria of 1938.
Hitler invades Poland, triggering France and Britain declare war on Germany.
1941
On November 15th 1941 Hitler signed an order that gave death sentences to Homosexual Prisoners.1942 In 1942 as a result of the order signed in 1941 all homosexual prisoners in the Klinker-werk subcamp of Sachsenhausen were murdered.
1945
World War Two Ended
Homosexual prisoners re imprisoned after the liberation of the concentration camps and made to serve out their terms of imprisonment, they are not recognised as victims of the Holocaust.
War criminal Dr Carl Vaernet arrested in Denmark and sent to prison.
1946
Dr Carl Vaernet is released from prison by the Danish and British authorities and flees to Buenos Aires.
1965
War criminal Dr Carl Vaernet dies in Buenos Aires, he lived openly using his real name to the full knowledge of the Danish authorities.
1969
The ammended 1935 version of paragraph 175 remained in effect in ‘Federal Republic’ (West Germany) until 1969 when it was repealed.
1989
When the Berlin Wall finally came down, East Germany was now free and paragraph 175 was now repealed and homosexuality became fully legal in Germany.
1871
Paragraph 175 came into effect in germany.
1900
Pink Lists’ compiled by the police for those who they suspect of being homosexual
1918
The First World War ended
1919
Ernst Rohm met Adolf Hitler in 1919
1920
1920 Ernst joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) where he helped organise the Sturmabeitung (SA)
1928
It was believed that 1.2 million men in germany were homosexual, after a survey had been comprised by the government.
1933
In 1933 Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany
March 6th Dachau the first concentration camp opens
On May 6th 1933 the Nazis ransacked the Institute For Sexual Science’ in Berlin.
1934
1934 Rohm and several other SA men arrested at their spa in Badweisee, Rohm imprisoned then executed along with the others, due to an alleged plot to over throw Hitler.
This event is more commonly known as the night of the long knives.
1935
Dr Magnus Hirschfield (1868 - 1935) in exile dies in France age 67.
September 1st 1935 an amended version of paragraph 175 (the criminal code which was originally framed in 1871) came in to effect.
1936
In 1936 Heinrich Himmler created the ’Reich Central Office’ for the combating of homosexuality and abortion. Special office (IIS) of the executive department 11 of the Gestapo was its name.
1937
Himmler gives a talk on the dangers of homosexuality in Bad Tolz on February 18th
1938
Hitler annexes Austria and the amended version of paragraph 175 comes into effect in Austria.
1939
Paragraph 175 brought the number of prosecutions to an increase peaking in the years of 1937 to 1939 in both Germany and the annexed Austria of 1938.
Hitler invades Poland, triggering France and Britain declare war on Germany.
1941
On November 15th 1941 Hitler signed an order that gave death sentences to Homosexual Prisoners.1942 In 1942 as a result of the order signed in 1941 all homosexual prisoners in the Klinker-werk subcamp of Sachsenhausen were murdered.
1945
World War Two Ended
Homosexual prisoners re imprisoned after the liberation of the concentration camps and made to serve out their terms of imprisonment, they are not recognised as victims of the Holocaust.
War criminal Dr Carl Vaernet arrested in Denmark and sent to prison.
1946
Dr Carl Vaernet is released from prison by the Danish and British authorities and flees to Buenos Aires.
1965
War criminal Dr Carl Vaernet dies in Buenos Aires, he lived openly using his real name to the full knowledge of the Danish authorities.
1969
The ammended 1935 version of paragraph 175 remained in effect in ‘Federal Republic’ (West Germany) until 1969 when it was repealed.
1989
When the Berlin Wall finally came down, East Germany was now free and paragraph 175 was now repealed and homosexuality became fully legal in Germany.