When Nazi leader Adolph Hitler needed to
justify arresting and murdering former political allies in 1934, he said they were gay. This
fanned anti-gay zealotry by the Gestapo, which opened a special anti-gay
branch. During the following year alone, the Gestapo arrested more than
8,500 gay men, quite possibly using a list of names and addresses seized at the Institute for Sexual Research. Not only was Paragraph 175 not erased, as a parliamentary committee had recommended just a few years before, it was amended to be more expansive and punitive.
As the Gestapo spread throughout Europe, it expanded the hunt. In Vienna, it
hauled in every gay man on police lists and questioned them, trying to get them to name others. The fortunate ones went to jail. The less fortunate went to
Buchenwald and Dachau. In conquered France, Alsace police
worked with the Gestapo to arrest at least 200 men and send them to concentration camps. Italy, with a fascist regime obsessed with virility, sent at least 300 gay men to brutal camps during the war period, declaring them “
dangerous for the integrity of the race.”
ACCORDING to the BIBLE, God said go forth and multiply, homos can't do that, so he didn't.