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Negotiating Gay Rights, Youth Protection, and Combat Readiness: The West German Bundeswehr and the Reform of the Criminal Code (Seminar)

UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Hyde Hall

Between 1969 and 1973, the § 175 of the West German Criminal Code, which penalized male homosexuality, was liberalized. This reform was greatly influenced by political considerations about how it would affect the West German armed forces—the Bundeswehr. Jurists, politicians … Read more