Societal attitudes towards same-sex relationships have varied over time and place, from expecting all males to engage in same-sex relationships, to casual integration, through acceptance, to seeing the practice as a minor sin, repressing it through law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, and to proscribing it under penalty of death.
Between 1933 and 1945, an estimated 100,000 men were arrested as homosexuals; ten thousands of which were sentenced by courts.
Most of these men served time in regular prisons, and between 5,000 and 6,000 were imprisoned in concentration camps.
A smaller number of men were sentenced to death or killed at Nazi euthanasia centres.
[62][66] [91][92] The details of the accusation are often not given in contemporary sources, with euphemisms such as "unnatural offence" used.