Upon the rise of Adolf Hler, gay men and, to a lser extent, lbians, were two of the numero groups targeted by the Nazi Party and were ultimately among Holot victims. Begng 1933, gay anizatns were banned, scholarly books about homosexualy, and sexualy general, were...
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HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS
Adolf Hler was gay - or so says a sensatnal new bgraphy on the Nazi dictator due to be published tomorrow. * was hitler gay *
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.
Röhm, who was also gay, was murred as a rult, acrdg to Machtan, a history teacher at Bremen refers to sr of historil documents to support his this. 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?
At the centre of this myth were claims, eher that Hler surround himself wh homosexuals – although Ernst Röhm was ually the only one they uld name – or that the Führer was himself homosexual. 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.
ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
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 II. * was hitler gay *
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. Röhm’s homosexualy uld be overlooked so long as he remaed eful; the moment he did not, beme a reason for gettg rid of him – as is ma perfectly clear this entry Goebbels’ diary:.
Ernst Röhm, the hight-rankg gay Nazi, prents an tertg study the nstctn and ntament of masculy by the right. * was hitler gay *
But the myth of llective perversn had a purpose to serve the anti-Nazi stggle – which was rarely noticeably pro-homosexual self – and the facts of the matter uld be allowed to lie fallow.
A measured, if brief, examatn of the qutn of Hler’s possible homosexualy tak place Karl Billger’s book Hler Is No Fool (undated, but apparently wrten 1939). ’ a subsectn head ‘The Bachelor’ discs the mours of homosexualy, impotence and syphilis: ‘Almost all of them are whout foundatn, bee those who really know will not or n no longer tell.