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Adolf Hitler And Homosexuality

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With the Great Depression of 1929, followed by the rise of the far right-wing party led by Adolf Hitler, the Golden Age was slipping away. Although many of the major cities embraced this liberal change, much of the rest of the country held its traditional homophobic views, despising how the country had changed. So when Hitler came in to power he had a great deal of support from the German people. A lot people at the time believed homosexuality was a sickness that could be cured, so the significance of the Nazi's performing these cruel punishments and experiments was very small on the rest of population, as many people believed this was a good thing.

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