The first part of the book highlights the devastating role played by reports and denunciations to the police and deals with the methods of investigation and interrogation employed by the Gestapo and the Criminal Police as well as the sentencing practices of the courts. Prosecutions in the years 1939-1941 concerning homosexual acts in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp also get detailed consideration. The second part features reconstructions of the case histories of seventeen individuals, shedding light on their everyday lives als well as their loves, happiness, and sufferings. The fate of these individuals stands for the many others who are recalled today only by their case files. Apparently, despite the persecution and repression, homosexual men succeeded in making contacts in parks, urinals and other public places.
Some sources even suggest a rather exuberant gay life in the German capital during the war years.
He just didn't notice anything at all. The picture of the Nazi-terror against homosexuals is getting more and more complete. Although homosexual acts between males were a criminal offence in Germany, before as well as after the Nazi's seized power, sex between women was not. 175 made no mention of women, not even after it was tightened up in 1935. However, this did not mean that lesbians go off scot-free.