LGBTQ+ History Month: gay victims and survivors of the Holot are often fotten – we need to tell their stori

Contents:

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

HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS

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. 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? Th: ‘Roehm is a notor homo-sexual, and he has equently abed his ary power as a supreme master over young men a terrible manner’; and, a ltle further down the list: ‘[Edmund] He belonged to the circle around the homo-sexual Roehm’ and was therefore, lerally by associatn, homosexual himself.

This list uld be prolonged to hundreds, for one lunatic office giv another lunatic a post; one murrer, who is a Police Chief, mak another murrer a Capta of Police; one homosexual ‘youth regenerator’ mak another homosexual his A. There is hardly much pot argug, on the ntrary, that lunatic, murrer and homosexual alike – if one really mt lump them together – are likely to avoid appotg lunatics, murrers and homosexuals, rpectively, for fear of drawg attentn to themselv.

He mentns the open homosexualy of Röhm and He – ‘The i which they held almost publicly more than once aroed storms of prott wh the Nazi Movement self’ – and the fact that Count Helldorf’s affair wh ‘the adventurer Hansen, alias Steschneir’ did not st the former his job as Berl’s chief of police.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

Yet, spe the signs of dulgence towards homosexualy wh Nazism – ‘He protected his followers as long as he believed he was sure of their fahfulns’ – Billger nclus by reeratg that ‘there is no known basis for the assumptn that Hler himself is homosexual – or ever has dulged homosexualy. For a while, the homosexualy of Ernst Röhm was a favoure topic among left-wg journalists, attractg a range of negative rpons om ridicule to moral outrage, all signed to unrme the broar Nazi claim to social disciple and moral superry.

Fally, the left-wg poet and journalist Kurt Tucholsky wrote a short say for Die Weltbühne (26 April 1932) straightforwardly entled ‘Röhm’, which he ma a simple and rather touchg plea for the homophobic propaganda to stop. It is not clear whom he means by ‘we’ his climactic peroratn – is vaguely possible that he is a homosexual intifyg wh fellow homosexuals, but more probable that he means fellow leftists, which se he is overstatg the Left’s mment to homosexual law reform – but his rhetoric requir the llective first person to remd the Left of the requirement for solidary:.

His argument that Röhm is, as were, a ‘good’ homosexual and servg of the urty of a private life nnot have rried much weight anti-Nazi circl, where the slightt ht of sexual sndal among men who had laid such a substantial claim to the moral high ground would be veloped to s fullt propagandistic potential.

NEW EVINCE OM HIS DOCTORS SHOWS HLER WAS GAY

He do, though, allow one way which the knowledge about Röhm’s homosexualy n legimately be ed agast the Nazis while not beg ed agast homosexuals: ‘If Goebbels screech or Hler thunrs about the moral y of morn tim, then should be poted out that there are obvly homosexuals among the Nazi troops. 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. Telligence report claims Hler was 'both homosexual and heterosexual'Report om 1943 mentns Vienna hostel where Hler lived om 1910 to 1913It claims had a reputatn as a place where men met for 'homosexual pleasur'The report also claims Hler was sexually attracted to his puty Rudolf Hs Published: 12:20 BST, 9 October 2018 | Updated: 13:36 BST, 9 October 2018.

Adolf Hler had a 'homosexual streak' and spent several years livg a gay hostel Atria, acrdg to a CIA profile on the Nazi lear wrten durg World War 1943 telligence report was piled for then-print Frankl D. Telligence claims Nazi lear Adolf Hler was 'both homosexual and heterosexual'The report was llated by anthropologist Henry Field, a hand-picked member of the Whe Hoe's special telligence un tasked wh trawlg through any rmatn he uld fd about German top brass, cludg Hler rultg 'bgraphil sketch' of Hler, verg everythg om his childhood and tn to diet, favoure mic and 'speech-makg technique' also clus an analysis of Hler's sexualy and touch on his time Atria as a stgglg pater his early has long been known that Hler lived at a men's hostel on Melmannstrasse Birgten, Vienna om 1910 to 1913.

WAS HLER GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY

'Gay hostel': It has long been known that Hler spent three years at this men's hostel Birgten, Vienna his early 20s, which acrdg to the file had 'a reputatn of beg a place where elrly men went search of young men for homosexual pleasur'The Office of Strategic Servic fil, a precsor of the morn CIA, then claims the hostel had 'the reputatn of beg a place where elrly men went search of young men for homosexual pleasur' rmatn about Hler's sexualy was provid by a Ernst Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, a German-Amerin who had been a close iend and nfidant of Hler's durg the 1920s and eventually fell out of favour wh Hler and the Nazi learship, and fled to Bra after which he fected to the U.

Acrdg to the report this belief was strengthened upon learng that 'Hs's nickname among homosexual members of the party was "Frale Anna" and that was notor that he had attend balls drsed female attire' is then scribed as a 'sado-masochistic type of man wh possibly even a homosexual streak him. ” * * * The tone had been set by the Rohm putsch, and on s first anniversary-June 28, 1935, the mpaign agast homosexualy was lated by the troductn of the “Law for the Protectn of German Blood and German Honour. But the law was undoubtedly ed primarily agast gay people, and the urt system was aid the wch-hunt by the entire German populace, which was enuraged to sctize the behavur of neighbours and to nounce spects to the Gtapo.

The number of men nvicted of homosexualy durg the Nazi perd totaled around fifty thoand: 1933 — 853 1934 — 948 1935 — 2, 106 1936 — 5, 320 1937 — 8, 271 1938 — 8, 562 1939 — 7, 614 1940 — 3, 773 1941 — 3, 735 1942 — 3, 963 1943 (first quarter) — 966 1944-45 —? In 1936, he gave a speech on the subject of homosexualy and scribed the murr of Ernst Rohm (which he had engeered) the terms: “Two years beme necsary, we did not scple to strike this plague wh ath, even wh our own ranks.

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

” Himmler closed wh the words: “Jt as we today have gone back to the ancient Germanic view on the qutn of marriage mixg different rac, so too our judgment of homosexualy a symptom of generacy which uld stroy our race we mt return to the guidg Nordic prciple: extermatn of generat.

A system of rankg women acrdg to the number of their offsprg was vised by Mister of the Interr Wilhelm Frick, who mand that homosexuals “be hunted down mercilsly, for their vice n only lead to the mise of the German people. Rudolf Klare wrote: “Sce the Masonic notn of humanarianism arose om the eccliastil/Christian feelg of chary, is sharply opposed to our Natnal Socialist worldview and is elimated a prri as a jtifitn for not penalizg homosexualy. 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.

Memorial "to the gay and lbian victims of Natnal Socialism" Cologne: The scriptn on the left si of the monument (to the viewer's right om the angle picted) reads "Totgchlagen – Totgchwiegen" ("Stck Dead – Hhed Up"). In late Febary 1933, as the moratg fluence of Ernst Röhm weakened, the Nazi Party lnched s purge of homosexual (gay, lbian, and bisexual; then known as homophile) clubs Berl, outlawed sex publitns, and banned anized gay groups.

Such "anti-homosexual" laws were wispread throughout the wtern world until the 1960s and 1970s, so many gay men did not feel safe to e forward wh their stori until the 1970s when many so-lled "sodomy laws" were repealed. [12] Reparatns and state pensns available to other groups were refed to gay men, who were still classified as crimals — the 1935 versn of Paragraph 175 remaed force Wt Germany until 1969 when the Bunstag voted to return to the pre-1935 versn. It was not until the 1970s and 1980s that there was some mastream exploratn of the theme, wh Holot survivors wrg their memoirs, plays such as Bent, and more historil rearch and documentari beg published about the Nazis' homophobia and their stctn of the German gay-rights movement.

5 ln Jews, Roma, Pol, Rsians and prisoners of var other natnali, and homosexuals, were murred, is not only a major ocsn for European cizens to remember and nmn the enormo horror and tragedy of the Holot, but also for addrsg the disturbg rise anti-Semism, and pecially anti-Semic cints, Europe, and for learng anew the wir lsons about the dangers of victimisg people on the basis of race, ethnic orig, relign, social classifitn, polics or sexual orientatn....

Arisg om the domant disurse of the Jewish sufferg durg the years of Nazi domatn, and buildg on the divergence of differential victimhoods brought to light by studi of the Roma and the mentally ill, who suffered massively unr the genics programs of the Third Reich, the ia of a “Gay Holot” was first explored the early 1970s.

The bate on the “Gay Holot” is therefore a highly load bate which would rult an ternatnal acknowledgement of state sponsored homophobia as a precursor to genoci should the proponents of the “Gay Holot” succeed. [18] It is, however, what Michel-Rolph Trouillot terms “an age when llective apologi are beg creasgly mon”[19] as well as a time when the tablished Holot disurse has settled and legimized claims of the Jewish, Roma and mentally ill victims of Nazi persecutn so would seem an appropriate time to at least brg attentn to the bate of the Gay Holot, even if the issue is not to be settled. A lack of rearch means that there is relatively ltle data on the dispersn of gay men throughout the mps however Hez Heger suggts his book The Men wh the Pk Triangle that they were subjected to harsher labor than smaller targeted groups, such as the polil prisoners, and furthermore suffered a much higher mortaly rate.

The notn of exclivy however is challenged by the existence of siar forc workg agast different social and ethnic groups such as homosexuals and the Roma, which rulted the victimizatn and systematic stctn of homosexual liv and liftyl, as well as those of the Roma. ”[23] While the foc of the early revisns was not necsarily to terme the Nazi policy on homosexuals as genocidal, they began a current towards legimizg the victimizatn of homosexuals unr the regime, a topic that had not been addrsed until the 1970s.

[23] Central to the studi was the notn that statistilly speakg, homosexuals suffered greater loss than many of the smaller mori unr Nazi persecutn such as the Jehovah’s Wns and wh the mps experienced harsher treatments and ostracizatn as well as executn at the hands of firg squads and the gas chambers. “The slowns of ernment rponse at feral and lol levels of ernment, the pcy of funds for rearch and treatment, particularly the early days of the epimic stems, Kramer argued, om ep-seated homophobic impuls and nstuted ‘tentnal genoci’. [25] The nservative rponse yield a new disurse workg agast the “Gay Holot” amia which emphasized the gay and lbian revisnism as a victimist disurse which sought sympathy and regnn as a pragmatic means of garnerg special stat and civil rights outsi those of the moral majory.