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Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington is set in the time in which the First and Second World Wars took place when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party were in power in Germany. During this period, homosexuals were severely discriminated against and deprived of most of their civil rights. However, there was a time before Hitler’s reign when homosexuals strived in Berlin and lived their lives freely without a worry that Nazis will come to take them from their families. Paragraph 175 was the German Code that made the sexual interaction between males a crime, and eventually made everything a crime for the enemies of the Nazis. If two men were together, they were reported by a neighbor or bystander to the police, and later put on the “Pink

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