For the Nazis, the national “folk” community or “Volksgemeinschaft” was a community of racially superior individuals who accepted and obeyed Nazi ideology. The Nazis demanded the German public’s unconditional obedience, and they tolerated no criticism, dissent, or nonconformity.
Population Policy and Homosexuals in Germany
In 1936, the Gestapo (Secret State Police) established a central office to investigate homosexuals.
It was called: The Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion
The linking of homosexuality and abortion reflected the Nazi concern with expanding the population of "racially acceptable" Germans.
Some leading Nazis feared that the relative shortage of men in Germany and the possible size of the homosexual population would seriously hinder the expansion of the German population into eastern Europe.
German Male Homosexuals
About 50,000 German men were convicted under Paragraph 175 of the German criminal code.
Between 5,000 and 15,000 German homosexual men were confined in Nazi concentration camps.
The 1935 version of Paragraph 175 remained in effect in Germany until 1969.
Even after liberation, homosexual men faced prosecution under German law.