ABSTRACT
The amendment to the Reich Penal Code was passed on 28 June 1935 and came into force on 1 September. This hasty reworking — as part of the drafting of a new penal code — was tersely motivated by reference to ‘bad experiences in the recent period’. By this was evidently meant the so-called ‘Röhm Putsch’. It is advisable — stated the legislator's commentary — ‘to bring into force beforehand the harsher provisions against homosexual offences between men which have been introduced in anticipation of the general renewal of the criminal law’.
