When Germany entered World War II homosexuality was an already existing trend that the Nazi high command deemed criminal and subsequently, in many cases was punished severely. According to Giles, the Nazi leadership saw homosexuals as people “who formed cliques, cliques that would go on to hatch treasonable conspiracies against the state” (Giles, The Denial of Homosexuality, p.262). In other words, national socialist ideology identified homosexuals as enemy of the state and inserted them in the same category as the gypsies and the Jews. Additionally, any engagement in a homosexual act meant that the men did not perform their duty to the state, which was to repopulate Germany. Since Nazi leadership considered that homosexuality effected national
