Hans-Joachim Schoeps (30 January 1909 Berlin - 8 July 1980 Erlangen) was a German-Jewish historian of religion and religious philosophy.
[2] The German Vanguard (Der deutsche Vortrupp), also referred to as "Nazi Jews", was a group of German-Jewish followers of Hitler led by Schoeps.
He was firmly opposed to the West German student movement after 1967, and published a book in 1972 in which he claimed that Germany was threatened by anarchy.
[4] In 1963, after the Adenauer government rejected a proposal to discard the Nazi-era version of Paragraph 175 criminalizing sexual activity between men, Schoeps commented: "For the homosexuals the Third Reich has not yet ended."
Günter Grau [de] writes that although not fully accurate, this statement corresponded to the beliefs of homosexual men at the time.