Nazi Germany and homosexuality

The homosexual Ernst Röhm was the only Nazi leader to address Hitler by his first name "Adolf" rather than "mein Führer" which helped prompt rumors that Adolf Hitler was a homosexual.

Moral decline prior to Nazi Germany, which spawned an increase in the acceptance of homosexuality in German society, occurred about 35 years before the Nazis took power and it paved the way for the Nazis to take power. A large part of the increase of support for homosexuality beforehand, including Germany becoming the birthplace of the so-called "Gay Rights" movement, originated with a particular man, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, who had been molested by his riding instructor at age 14 and attributed his homosexuality to a "third sex" instead of his molestation.^[1] The Nazis were rabid evolutionists who insisted that the "German master race" should dominate other so-called inferior races. Belief in evolution has been linked to a decline of morality.^[2]

The American journalist H. R. Knickerbocker wrote about the homosexual Nazi leader Ernst Röhm: Röhm's "chiefs, men of the rank of Gruppenfuehrer or Obergruppenfuehrer, commanding units of several hundred thousand Storm Troopers, were almost without exception homosexuals. Indeed, unless a Storm Troop officer were homosexual, he had no chance of advancement."^[3]

Ernst Röhm was the only Nazi leader to address Hitler by his first name "Adolf" rather than "mein Führer" which helped prompt rumors that Hitler was a homosexual. The historian Lothar Machtan and others have uncovered historical evidence that suggest Adolf Hitler may have been a homosexual.^[4] However, the sexuality of Hitler is a matter of scholarly debate and historians are divided on whether Hitler was homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual or asexual.^[5]

Later when Adolf Hitler came into power, he chose to persecute homosexuals in order to advance his notions of racial struggle.^[6] Yet at the same time, Hitler retained some sexual deviants in positions of power within the Nazi leadership. For example, Hermann Goering was known to dress in drag, paint his nails and put rouge on his cheeks. Another example is the case of Max Bielas who "had a harem of little Jewish boys. He liked them young, no older than seventeen. He had a kind of parody of the shepherds of Arcadia, their role was to take care of the camp flock of geese. They were dressed like little princes...Bielas had a little barracks built for them that looked like a doll's house...Bielas sought in Treblinka only the satisfaction of his homosexual instincts (Steiner:117f)."^[7]

Homosexuality was supported in Nazi Germany, although modern gay rights activists claim that an estimated 100,000 homosexual men were arrested for this crime, of whom approximately 5,000 to 15,000 were interned in concentration camps.^[8] See Homosexuals and the Holocaust for further details.

Paragraph 175 banned homosexuality long before Hitler was even born. As The Pink Swastika by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams pointed out, 85% of Nazi homosexuals were of the Butches faction while the other 15% were of the Femmes faction, and as the Butches persecuted the Femmes, today's LGBT movement is not monolithic either as they claim that drag queens offend the transgender.

Yet, according to some historians, homosexual men constituted the core of the Nazi Party in Germany.^[9] In contrast to the wimpy "swish" homosexual, Nazi homosexuals were ultra-macho or "butch".

The OSS addressed the reason why so many homosexuals found the Nazi party inviting,

Bryan Fischer of the Idaho Values Alliance writes,

In 1941 the Office of Strategic Services prepared A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler. Langer attributed the belief of many that Hitler was homosexual "(a) from the fact that he does show so many feminine characteristics, and (b) from the fact that there were so many homosexuals in the Party during the early days and many continue to occupy important positions." Langer added, "It does seem that Hitler feels much more at ease with homosexuals."

Some parts of the American Nazi movement are explicitly homosexual. The National Socialist League, a group that existed from the mid to late seventies, restricted its membership to homosexual Nazis.^[11]

Scott Lively ^[12] wrote:

Largely because of the Frankfurt School, and in particular Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, redefining fascism and Nazism as being right wing and manipulating the American Jewish Committee as such, the Nazis being largely composed of sexual deviants and bohemians, including homosexuals, was often ignored in academic circles and various leftist groups, and many times the Nazis were falsely assumed to be sexually rigid and puritanical in their sexual relationships.^[13][14]

See also[edit]

• Religious Upbringing and Culture Affects Rates of Homosexuality
• Homosexuality and pedophilia
• Overcoming homosexuality
• Disturbed character

External links[edit]

Adolf Hitler's sexuality:

• Richard Bessel reviews the book by historian Lothar Machtan - The Hidden Hitler - History Today
• Hitler's bizarre sex life
• Gay-Dolf Hitler: Fussy Fascist Dragged out of Closet - NY Post
• Was Hitler's Homosexuality Nazism's Best-Kept Secret? - Insight Magazine
• New evidence from his doctors indicate that Adolph Hitler was gay - Breitbart
• Hitler and his libido: A dud in the bag afraid of women he could not satisfy

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