Photo: DPAGermany's parliament voted Thursday to quash the convictions of 50,000 gay men sentenced for homosexuality under a Nazi-era law which remained in force after the war and offer compensation. After decades of lobbying, victims and activists hailed a triumph in the struggle to clear the names of gay men who lived with a criminal record under Article 175 of the penal code. It offers gay men convicted under the law a lump sum of €3,000 as well as an additional €1,500 for each year they spent in prison. Germany's Article 175 outlawed "sexual acts contrary to nature... be it between people of the male gender or between people and animals". He said Article 175 robbed him of many of the best years of his life.

Source: The Local June 22, 2017 19:07 UTC