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Alan Turing was a fucking hero, and the British legal system drove him to suicide (lemmy.world)

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[–] niktemadur 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Chemical castration, with severe depression and suicidal thoughts as side effects.

As horrible as that undoubtedly is, in nazi Germany he would have been sent to a concentration camp, with forced labor and conceivably even the gas chamber.

That's how fucked up humanity was as a whole back then.

[–] PugJesus 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

And yet, in France at the time nothing would have been done to him. In Belgium, in Switzerland, in the Netherlands, in Denmark.

[–] frobeniusnorm 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You mean in Germany, Germany, Colabratour of Germany that sends fugitives back, Germany, Gemany at that time?

[–] PugJesus 1 points 4 months ago

Alan Turing was chemically castrated in 1952, 7 years after the end of WW2.

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