Assimilation or Resistance: The Politics of Gender Performance Among West German Homosexuals, 1945-1969
Far from a clean break from the Nazi past, Germany’s “Zero Hour” retained many of the same attitudes which permitted the Reich’s twelve-year reign. While most of the Nazi era laws were repealed or changed, Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code was not. First put into law in 1871 and expanded under the Third…