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 | | In most instances, those classified as homosexuals had been imprisoned on poli tical grounds and stigmatized post facto as sexual "deviants." The vast majority of known practicing homosexuals in the Nazi Party and, for example, in the officer corps of the Wehrmacht, lived with no fear of disgrace, let alone of arrest and automatic death. |
 | | For example, Sturmbannfürher Rudolf Lange, the senior SS officer in the Baltic region (a notoriously brutal man who participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference) was, according to survivors of the Riga ghetto, sexually involved with at least one of his SS subordinates, Maywald. |
 | | Like numerous other ranking Nazis, he was not prosecuted for sexual "misbehavior." Practicing the governing rules of discretion, Lange maintained a façade of "respectability," that is, he was a family man and presented himself publicly and socially as impeccably "straight." |
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