Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim was arrested by the Schutzstaffel (SS) in January of 1937 along with 230 other homosexuals under the criminal code, paragraph 175, which was revised by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 outlawed homosexuality which Nazis took advantage of in order to arrest large groups of homosexuals at once. Friedrich-Paul was imprisoned for 10 months, freed only when he agreed to submit to an operation, castration. In 1940, he signed up to join military service, rejected due to his physically unqualified state. He was then arrested once again as a political prisoner in an annex of the Neuengamme concentration camp in 1943 due to supporting the deceased Kaiser Wilhelm II, a former emperor of Germany. The annex of the Neuengamme concentration
