The issue of male homosexuality was a core aspect of Nazi ideology. In order to achieve military success, the Nazis believed that Germany required masculine and aggressive men who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the Fatherland. How, then, did the Nazis cope with the realization that there were homosexuals amongst their troops? This thesis discusses the way in which homosexual servicemen were prosecuted under Nazi law, specifically Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code. It examines the role of the military justice system in the handling of homosexual cases within the Wehrmacht, the German military. It undertakes a close analysis of a small sample of military court trial records of accused homosexual servicemen from 1942 and 1944. These trials were conducted before the Reichskriegsgericht, the Reich Supreme Military Court. This study will show that the Reich Supreme Military Court played a fundamental role in the implementation of Nazi law against homosexuality in the military sphere. (From Introduction).