Editing Prostitution in Germany (section)

==={{Anchor|Weimar}}Weimar Republic (1918–1933)===
In [[Weimar Republic|Weimar-era Germany]] the economy collapsed due to the loss of the [[First World War]] and the imposition of [[World War I reparations|war reparations]] at the [[Treaty of Versailles]]. As a result, the middle class lost their savings and the working class were unemployed. The Republic ended up printing money to pay its bills which lead to [[Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic|hyperinflation in 1923]]. The outcome of all of this was that women, including the millions of war widows, turned to prostitution. Licentiousness and streetwalking were common in this period and Weimar Berlin is famed for its decadence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/transformations/persons-and-sexuality/project-archives/1st/session-1-prostitution-and-monogamy/|first=Julia|last=Bruggemann|title=Prostitution, Sexuality, and Gender Roles in Imperial German Hamburg: A Case Study {{!}} First Global Conference on Sexualities|year=2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928113422/http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/transformations/persons-and-sexuality/project-archives/1st/session-1-prostitution-and-monogamy/|archive-date=28 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vgnUZLAoLYIC&pg=PA19|title=Genealogies of Identity: Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality|first1=Margaret Sönser|last1=Breen|first2=Fiona|last2=Peters|date=10 April 2018|publisher=Rodopi|via=Google Books|isbn=978-9042017580}}</ref>

On a national scale, prostitution was officially proscribed, but within various locales, polices tolerated prostitutes if they were in state registry. Prostitutes were to have compulsory medical examines for STDs, banned from areas of large public gathering, and were required to give up personal freedoms of private residence, travel, and denying unwarranted search<ref>{{Cite book |last=Flexner |first=Abraham |title=Prostitution in Europe |publisher=The Century Co. |others=Introduction by John D Rockefeller Jr., Printed by Burr Printing House |year=1914 |isbn=9780875850306 |location=London |pages=415–419 |language=English}}</ref> under the German moral police, ''Sittenpolizei''. Unregistered prostitutes arrested for soliciting, or otherwise were not given the same legal protection or voice as average citizens, and due process was not practiced.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Roos |first=Julia |date=2002 |title=Backlash against Prostitutes' Rights: Origins and Dynamics of Nazi Prostitution Policies |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.2002.0012 |journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=67–94 |doi=10.1353/sex.2002.0012 |s2cid=142706546 |issn=1535-3605|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

The Law for Combating Venereal Diseases was adopted in 1927,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.zaoerv.de/01_1929/1_1929_2_b_536_2_541.pdf |title= Gesetz zur Bekämpfung der Geschlechtskrankheiten |website= Zaoerv |access-date= 13 November 2017 |language= de }}</ref> which decriminalized prostitution thus undoing the state-regulated system, ''Reglementierung''.<ref name=":0" />