> Throughout history, people sometimes make bad calls. With hindsight, it's easy to see what those were. Clearly some of his treatment was in the 'bad call' camp, but I don't think that was clear at the time.

This is a bullshit argument, of course they knew what they were doing to him and why. They persecuted him with the intent to eradicate homosexual people. If you can give the Brits the benefit of doubt and assume that it wasnt clear to them how bad it was what they were doing to homosexuals, than you can equally claim that it wasnt so clear to the Nazis that it was bad what they were doing to the Jews. The persecution og the homosexual minority by the heterosexual majority is not less obviously wrong than the persecution of the black minority by the white majority or the persecution of the jew minority by the christian majority.