Natsi-Saksassa miesten välinen homoseksi oli näennäisesti kriminalisoitu ja naisten välinen lesboseksi oli avoimesti sallittu.
Erityisen outona [historioitsija Samuel Clowes] Huneke pitää Margot Liun, omaa sukua Holzmannin, tapausta. Liu oli berliiniläinen juutalainen, joka meni vuonna 1941 naimisiin kiinalaisen tarjoilijan kanssa ja sai Kiinan kansalaisuuden. Kun Liun lesbous selvisi aviomiehelle, tämä haki avioeroa ja ilmiantoi vaimonsa poliisille. Poliisi tutki asiaa, mutta Liu ei saanut syytettä. On kerrassaan käsittämätöntä, että natsi-Saksan rikospoliisi katsoi saksanjuutalaisen lesbon nauttivan lain suojaa, koska hän oli Kiinan kansalainen, Huneke sanoo.[1] —Anniina Wallius
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[1] Anniina Wallius, Natsi-Saksan lesbojen suopea kohtelu yllätti tutkijan, Yle Uutiset, (14.6.2017 klo 17:04); Ksm. Vito Russo, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, Rev. ed., Harper & Row, New York, (1987), s. 5, 20; Jonathan Kirsch, The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan, Liveright, New York, (2013), s. 234; Homoseksuaalisuudesta fasisti-Italiassa: During the Fascist Dictatorship, 1925-1945, attempts were made to criminalize homosexual acts. In one of the early versions of the Fascist penal legislation, the Rocco Code, promulgated in 1930, "libidinous acts" between people of the same sex were to be punished, "if they cause a scandal," by six months to three years in jail. However, the proposal encountered strong opposition and was not included in the final version of the code since, allegedly, so few Italians practiced homosexuality that their persecution was superfluous. The typically Italian attitude of remaining silent about same-sex desire for fear of promoting it won once again over the impulse to punish it. Criminalizing homosexuality would have required the regime to admit its existence, thus damaging the cult of masculinity that constituted one of its ideological foundations. [...] Gay subcultures have been documented in late medieval and Renaissance Florence, Venice, and Rome; and during the Renaissance, sodomy was even described in Northern Europe as "the Italian vice." —Luca Prono, Italy, Online Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture, (2011).
