Karl Lange
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Karl Lange (born October 28, 1915, Hamburg, Germany) was the son of an American father and a German mother, who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the (then) crime of homosexuality.
In 1935, when Lange was twenty years old, an informer told the police that he had been having secret meetings with a fifteen-year-old youth, and he was arrested under the criminal code's paragraph 175, which defined homosexuality as an unnatural act. He was released after fifteen months but re-arrested in 1937 and imprisoned at Fuhlsbüttel prison, and then transferred to Waldheim prison in Sachsen, where he suffered a nervous breakdown.
After the war, Lange was hired at a bank in Hamburg, but was fired after eighteen months when his employer learned of his paragraph 175 convictions.
