ABSTRACT
As a number of well-known German legal experts considered that the political dangers fantasized in relation to lesbianism were far smaller than those involved in sexual relations between men, the official Criminal Law Commission spoke out in summer 1935 against the criminalization of female homosexuality. Nothing changed in this respect until the end of the war. And yet — particularly in discussions on a draft penal code for the ‘Third Reich’, but also in the legal literature of the time — attempts were continually being made to alter this perception.
