The Bad Guy was Hitler and the Good Guys won.

It must be based on the fact that German public opinion considers sexual relations between man and man as an error, which is capable of ruining character and destroying the sense of morality. If this error spreads, it leads to the degeneration of the people and the decline of their forces.

The Reichzentrale zur Bekämpfung von Abtreibung und Homosexualität (in Spanish, Empire Central for the Fight against Abortion and Homosexuality) was created in 1936 and managed by the SS. It is estimated that around 100,000 homosexuals were booked and convicted.

The end of Nazism and the return to democracy did not bring quick news for German gays. Although tolerance was greater and the authorities sometimes turned a blind eye, the infamous criminalization of free sexuality was not removed from the Penal Code until 1994, three quarters of a century after Different from the Others.

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