 The statute of Paragraph 175 was amended several times. The Nazis  broadened the law in 1935 and increased its prosecutions by an order  of magnitude; thousands died in concentration camps, regardless of  guilt or innocence. East Germany reverted to the old version of the  law in 1950, limited its scope to sex with youths under 18 in 1968,  and abolished it entirely in 1988. West Germany retained the  Nazi