It's true that the attitudes of many Germans toward LGBTQ people became more progressive in the 1920s and early '30s, Hitler included. But in the mid-'30s and throughout the war, Hitler scapegoated gay men in particular just as he did Jews, gypsies, etc., just to stir up his followers and gain more power.
About 100,000 men were arrested by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945 for sodomy, and most of those men were sent to concentration camps where they were beaten, starved, shot, died horribly of disease, etc. No one knows the exact numbers, but certainly many tens of thousands of them died there.
America was certainly no paradise for gays at that time either, but there's just no comparison between the persecution and dangers faced in the U.S. during those same years and the widespread horrors and death that the Nazi regime, under Hitler's direct orders, inflicted on so many.
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