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en the tendency to create a hierarchy of groups of victims. As to the funds:not even the Bundestag itself knows how it arrived at the different sums itintends to spend. Nobody has been able to present me a plausible calculation.Yet the question of hierarchy is somehow reflected in these figures too:in the dimensions, the location and in the money available. I am confidentthat by exploiting the site’s full potential, the artists will succeed in communicatingall that is still scandalous, and in showing that what happenedbetween 1933 and 1945 does not belong to a long-lost past, but that it stillaffects us, and that it is important that we learn from it.’ Günter Dworekclosed the ensuing discussion on whether the different groups of victimsshould be acknowledged differently according to their size with the followingstatement: We proceed from the fate of the persecuted individual, fromhis/her suffering, and from that of the next of kin. We want to remember notonly the German homosexuals, but all those human beings who were persecutedunder National Socialism for their homosexuality, even though westill know little about the persecution that took place outside Germany. Allthe information we can gather on this is both important and helpful in ourendeavour to grasp the full scale of the persecution that took place.Translated by: Robin Benson1 In the GDR, Section 175 of the Penal Code was applied from 1950 in the version datingback to Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic. Section 175a, which was introduced in1935 and contained particularly severe sanctions for so-called “qualified cases”, was retained.In 1957, a criminal law amendment act allowed prosecutors to refrain from imposing penalsanctions, “if an act corresponds to a legal offence under the wording of the law but presentsno danger due to its insignificance and due to its having no harmful consequences for the GermanDemocratic Republic, socialist development, the interests of the working people or theindividual citizen.” (Section 8, Introductory Law to the Penal Code) – see Grau, 1995.The new GDR Penal Code of 1968 contained a special ruling introducing an age limit of 18.This was designed to protect the youth against homosexual and lesbian contact (Section 151of the DDR Penal Code).46