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In article <uhmiej$2jnm$13@dont-email.me>

BERLIN

The handsome, blond, and athletic scion of a noble family in Lower
Saxony, Gottfried von Cramm had all the features sought by the Nazis
for propaganda purposes. Nevertheless, the two-time winner of the
French Open tennis tournament (1934 and 1936) explicitly refused to
be used as a poster boy for Nazi ideology and never joined the
NSDAP. After repeatedly spurning opportunities to ingratiate himself
with the regime, it was another issue that got him into trouble. On
March 5, 1938, von Cramm was arrested under Paragraph 175 of the
German penal code, which prohibited homosexual conduct. He was
alleged to have had a relationship with a Galician Jew, the actor
Manasse Herbst. Reformers had nearly succeeded in overturning the
statute during the Weimar republic, but the Nazis tightened it after
their ascent to power.

https://www.lbi.org/1938projekt/detail/homosexual-relations-with-a-
jew/

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