Early on I interpreted it as a symbol and hate crime. Sure, this woman was white, married two (presumably white) men, divorced one, stayed with the other until his untimely death (following the cultural paradigm of the dutiful wife), bore 3 children (“for the fatherland”), and even treated her murderer respectfully, but all of it was insufficient to fascists because she married a woman.

She was punished for the “crime” of “not quite liking dick enough”.