Germany compensates hundreds over Nazi-era anti-LGBT laws

The German justice minister Heiko Maas (SPD) at the memorial for the homosexual victims of National Socialist persecution in Berlin, Germany, 28 April 2017. (Photo: MICHAEL KAPPELER)

German authorities have compensated nearly 250 people who were prosecuted or investigated under a Nazi-era law criminalizing homosexuality that continued to be enforced enthusiastically after World War II.

The Federal Office of Justice said Monday that, up to the end of…