Question of Homosexuality

The Question of Homosexuality is the title of a speech by Heinrich Himmler from February 18, 1937. The following is an excerpt from that speech:

To sum up...
Himmler saw homosexuality as a crime worthy of the death penalty. He proclaimed that the state very much did have business interfering in what two consenting adults did in the privacy of their bedroom, because the bedroom was where the next generation of Aryan men and women was conceived, and anything that might reduce the birth rate would allow Germany's enemies to out-breed them. In short, homosexuals were literally killing the German nation by not having children. It was the same belief that underpinned the Nazis' views on women: demographics were destiny, and German families needed to produce large numbers of babies who would grow up into soldiers to fight Germany's wars. Later on, Himmler explicitly connected the Nazis' homophobia and anti-feminism when he argued that both homosexuality and women in the workforce would lead to a breakdown in the meritocracy, as workers would be promoted based on physical attractiveness rather than competence (attractive women under straight bosses, attractive men under gay bosses).

How this was supposed to deal with gay men who were in the closet, we will never know.