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Alan Turing was a fucking hero, and the British legal system drove him to suicide (media.piefed.social)
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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah such a bigoted country where the choice of punishment was prison time or chemical castration, unlike Germany at the time where being gay meant... (checks notes) being sent to a concentration camp, worked brutally literally to the bone, and then gassed to death.

Turing was convicted after WWII, in 1952. There were no concentration camps back then. Legally, concentration camps have never been a mean of punishment of criminality, like prisons. People were not detained in CCs due to the rule of a court in a criminal case.
In German criminal law, homosexuality between men (aged over 21) was punished with up to 10 years prison in 'severe cases'. Which was the official legislation from the Nazi era (1935) present until 1969.

https://www.forum-recht-online.de/2005/205/205steinke.htm (in German)

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure it will be of great comfort to the people who died in the camps to learn that their murder by the Nazis was illegal, actually.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

That's not what I said.