After reading the German and English version I am a little puzzled, since the German version says, that they were kept and transvestites stayed unharmed when not homosexual while the English version says:
After the Nazis came to power, most passes were revoked or German police refused to recognize them.
The German original source says the following:
Sofern Trans*personen den „gegen sie erhobenen Homosexualitätsverdacht entkräften konnten, lässt sich in keinem Fall eine Strafverfolgung nachweisen. "
Which translates to:
If trans*persons “could invalidate the suspicion of homosexuality, there is no evidence of criminal prosecution.”
Not exactly, transvestites were also persecuted. The Zentrum für Sexualwissenschaft got closed down by the Nazis and they also put a lot of them in camps.
Fascists: Interrupting drag shows since 1938!
Actually
notit’s complicated.Fascinating as it may sound, transvestites were mostly allowed in the third reich, when they weren’t homosexual.
The even got their own pass:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvestite_pass
After reading the German and English version I am a little puzzled, since the German version says, that they were kept and transvestites stayed unharmed when not homosexual while the English version says:
The German original source says the following:
Which translates to:
Not exactly, transvestites were also persecuted. The Zentrum für Sexualwissenschaft got closed down by the Nazis and they also put a lot of them in camps.