German reparation for gay men

- Germany's gay men convicted under the notorious Section 175 of the German Criminal Code, rehabilitate and compensate. It announced Justice Minister Heiko Maas on Wednesday. The verdict of more than 50,000 men will be destroyed. German anti-discrimination agency, in a legal opinion to the government recommended.

Sex between men was criminalized in the Federal Republic until 1994. The GDR abolished the article, which was tightened considerably in 1935 on the National Socialists, already in 1968. A year later became the West German legislation more flexible in this, but sentenced to that time, there are tens of thousands of men, sometimes multi-year prison sentences. After 1969, the court acted against another 3500 gay on.

,, The state has debt burdened itself because it complicates the lives of so many people. Section 175 was unconstitutional from the start, '' said Maas.,, The old judgments are wrong. They hurt each condemned to the depths of his human dignity. ''