I have read that after the end of the war and the liberation, homosexuals were released from the camps…and sent directly to prison.
Was this a policy with all homosexuals? Or just with those who had been convicted? I would imagine that the Allies would reimprison your average common criminal, and at the time homosexuality or at least a homosexual act was a crime in most places.
Was it “hey you, you are wearing a Pink Triangle! Jail”
Or “hey you, yiu have been covicted of a crime, back to prison”.
It’s a case of, like you said “reimprisoning your average common criminal”. Those homosexuals (and other concentration camp prisoners who were in the camps for criminal offenses) who hadn’t completed their sentence were sent to prison. Then, after the West German government was constituted, they took the attitude that the changes the Nazis had made to section 175 of the criminal code weren’t motivated by Nazi ideology, but they they were legitimate changes to the law, and the Nazi version of the law was kept, and prosecutions continued under it until it was changed in 1969.
But a lot of homosexuals in Nazi Germany who were in camps had already completed their sentences or acquitted by a criminal court before they were put in the camps, and they were released.