he justified his proposal with the costs that resulted for the state for the support of homosexuals in Nazi concentration camps and preventative detention: "if they were castrated, they would be released soon, as most would not present a danger to the community, and they could also be reintegrated into society with the benefit of life". According to Rodenberg, Hitler as well would have attributed "great importance to the fight against evil". Post-war After the end of the war, Rodenberg lived in Wald-Michelbach. Because of his participation in the conference of 27 October 1942, the prosecution of Darmstadt and Berlin investigated him in the 1970s, but failed to prosecute. Speaking to the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in 1986, Rodenberg denied his activities in the Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion. He stated that studies on the therapeutic success of castration had been limited to moral crimes, not to homosexuals. Rodenberg's claim that he was indifferent to "the way in which homosexual adults appease their sexual desires freely amongst themselves" was contrary to Rodenberg's publications during the Nazi regime.<ref name="trans">This article incorporates information from the corresponding article in the Spanish Wikipedia</ref> Bibliography Burkhard Jellonek: Homosexuelle unter dem Hakenkreuz. Die Verfolgung von Homosexuellen im Dritten Reich.'' Schöningh, Paderborn 1990, References 1904 births 1995 deaths German neurologists German psychiatrists People from Heide University of Marburg alumni Physicians in the Nazi Party Sturmabteilung officers SS-Obersturmbannführer Aktion T4 personnel Reich Security Main Office personnel Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany