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Contents:

• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS
• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• NEW EVINCE OM HIS DOCTORS SHOWS HLER WAS GAY
• WAS HLER GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS
• 'THE PECULIAR SEX LIFE OF ADOLF HLER' OFFERS SIGHT TO THE DICTATOR'S GAY PARTNERS

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung). Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl. Around 15, 000 gay people were sent to ncentratn mps, where some were experimented upon bizarre efforts to fd a “cure” for sexual orientatn, a forhadowg of Amerin psychologil and later fundamentalist efforts to try the same thg. Eyewns acunts om Hler's former lovers, and historil documents that for the first time illumate mours that have circulated for over half a century, are disclosed Hler's Secret: The Double Life of a Dictator rpected German historian Lothar Machtan even claims his book that Hler orred the aths of several high-rankg Nazis to prevent the secret of his homosexualy om Röhm, the lear of Hler's Sturm Abteilung or Storm Troopers, tried to blackmail Hler by threateng to reveal his sexualy.

HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS

Acrdg to Erich Ebermeier, a lawyer and wrer who viewed Hler's ary fil years later: 'Dpe his bravery towards the enemy, bee of his homosexual activy he lost out on a promotn to non-missned officer. Machtan says that Hler was particularly drawn to Rudolf Hs, his puty, who was known party circl as 'black Emma' and wh whom he had spent months Landsberg, then, did the Nazis persecute homosexuals, sendg hundreds of thoands of them to their aths labour mps and the gas chambers? Hirschfeld, a groundbreakg sexologist, both gay and Jewish and therefore a prime target of Nazi Germany, was thankfully not prent when his stute was ransacked by mardg Nazi youth (here aga, there are photos).

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175).

NEW EVINCE OM HIS DOCTORS SHOWS HLER WAS GAY

As the dictator of Nazi Germany, he orred the Holot and helped start World War II, which led to the ath of over 70 ln people ’s love life was the reflectn of his polics — full of sufferg, manipulatn, and ’s probable homosexualyAdolf Hler (left) wh his chffr Juli Schreck (right) (Image:)In his early adult life, Adolf Hler practiced homosexual relatnships. Schreck received a state funeral and Hler himself livered the Nazi opponents ed the wispread homosexualy among the Nazi lears to smear their public Nazi party was lled “The Brotherhood of Poofs.

Army terrogator Herman Merl, who was a medil technician who terviewed Hler’s doctors, Karl Brandt and Hler’s primary physician, Theodor Morell, wrote “Homosex” the space provid for Hler’s sexualy. It is not unmon to hear homosexualists (those both "gay" and "straight" who promote the legimizatn of homosexualy) characterize "gay rights" as the natural third wave of civil rights activism (followg blacks and women). Communy of the Special which created and shaped what would bee the Nazi persona, and was the loathg which the "Butch" held for effemate homosexuals ("Femm") which led to the ternment of some of the latter slave labor mps the Third Reich.

Konrad Hein, a ntemporary of Hler and a leadg thory on Nazi history, wrote that the Freikorps "were breedg plac of perversn" and that "Rossbach's pecially proud" of beg homosexual (Hein:295). "Was not the most outstandg, most notor, of all homosexuals the celebrated Nazi lear Ernst Ro[e]hm, the virile and manly chief of the SA, the du buddy of Adolf Hler om the begng of his polil reer?

WAS HLER GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY

If there were ocsnal omo mblgs and gmblgs about "all those queers" the SA and Movement, and some anti-gay flare-ups, homosexual Nazis felt more-or-ls secure the lap of the Party. "The prciple functn of this army-like anizatn, " wr historian Thomas Fuchs, "was beatg up anyone who opposed the Nazis, and Hler believed this was a job bt unrtaken by homosexuals" (Fuchs:48f).

Lendg crence to this is the fact, noted by Walter Langer, that durg several of those years Hler "chose to live a Vienna flophoe known to be habed by many homosexuals" (Langer:192). Rector wr that, as a young man, Hler was often lled "r Schoen Adolf" (the handsome Adolf) and that later his looks "were also to some extent helpful gag big-money support om Ernst Ro[e]hm's circle of wealthy gay iends" (Rector:52). One of Hler's valets, Schneir, ma no explic statement about the relatnship, but he did fd strange that whenever Hler got a prent he liked or drew an archectural sketch that particularly pleased him, he would n to Hs -- who was known homosexual circl as "Frle Anna" -- as a ltle boy would n to his mother to show his prize to her...

Reportedly, Hler Youth lear, Baldur von Schirach was bisexual; Hler's private attorney, Reich Legal Director, Mister of Jtice, butcher Governor-General of Poland, and public gay-hater Hans Frank was said to be a homosexual; Hler's adjutant Wilhelm Bckner was said to be bisexual;..

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS

He stat that Hler's chffr and one-time personal secretary, Ee Mrice, for example, was homosexual, as well as the pornographer Juli Streicher, who "was origally a school teacher, but was dismissed by the Nuremberg School Authori, followg numero charg of perasty brought agast him" (Igra:72f).

'THE PECULIAR SEX LIFE OF ADOLF HLER' OFFERS SIGHT TO THE DICTATOR'S GAY PARTNERS

The law agast homosexual nduct had existed Germany for many years prr to the Nazi regime as Paragraph 175 of the Reich Crimal Co, to w: "A male who dulg crimally cent activy wh another male, or who allows himself to participate such activy, will be punished wh imprisonment" (Burleigh and Wipperman:188). Hler me to power he ed this law as a means of trackg down and punishg those homosexuals who, the words of one victim, "had fend the Weimar Republic, and who had tried to fortall the Nazi threat" (ibid. It will never be known how many non-homosexuals were charged unr this law, but is disputable that the Nazis ed false accatns of homosexualy to jtify the tament and imprisonment of many of their opponents.

Sce long before the Nazis, homosexuals had generally lived clanste liv, so was not unual for revelatns of their nduct to e as a surprise to their muni when beme a police matter. Homosexualist Jam Steakley acknowledg the "Butch/Femme" aspect of the cint, sayg that some German homosexuals "uld nceivably have approved of the measure, particularly if they were Nazi sympathizers or male supremacists" (Steakley:105). [In this mpaign to erase his past] Hler orred the murr of Rehold Hanish, a iend who had shared his down-and-out days Vienna" (where Hler is spected of havg been a homosexual prostute) (Sklar:21).

Hler feigned disgt and outrage about the homosexualy of the murred SA lears to jtify himself to the German people; was a tactic he had ed prevly to allay public spicns about the sexual viancy of his ner circle. The formal accatns agast Roehm and those arrted wh him centered on their homosexual activi, which Hler had of urse known about for fifteen years and shgged off, beg alleged that the activi disgraced the party.