The Hidn Führer: Debatg the Enigma of Hler's Sexualy: Directed by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Gabriel Rotello. Wh Marlene Sanrs, Adolf Hler, Lothar Machtan, Michael Bronski. German historian Lothar Machtan proposed his book that Hler may have been gay and his sire to keep a secret motivated many of his actns. This film tails Machtan's exploratns and provis other historians a chance to refute Machtan's nclns." data-id="ma
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- NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
- GAY-DOLF HITLER ; FUSSY FASCIST DRAGGED OUT OF CLOSET
NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
It vers how a heterosexual German historian tri to prove his claim that Hler was homosexual, and, a rehg change a documentary, has other historians mentg on his fdgs and theori. A good pot of the argument revolv that any rerds nfirmg his homosexualy would have been stroyed by Hler, so you're startg to lve to JFK-quire nspiraci and ver-ups. One also may note that the stigma of homosexualy, wh s negative nnotatns may be ed simply to slanr an dividual, so any send hand acunts need to be examed that light as the greatt pot the documentary rais, and ntu s DVD extras, is the topic of scholarship and homosexualy.
Bee this is such a polarizg topic, and evok strong feelgs among both straight and gay historians, be very clear that retag objectivy this field of study is very difficult. By havg gay and straight historians, wh proponents and tractors on the theory on both sis give voice, really is one of the few documentari that lets the viewer draw his own nclns.
Which didn’t stop burly Hler nfidante and head of the Nazi SA paraary wg Ernst Röhm, a not-terribly-closeted gay man, om equentg the tablishment. As the film explas, the SA had a strong homoerotic element, a disgt wh women and femy they somehow ed to jtify homosexualy – for a time, anyway. At a certa pot, Röhm’s iendship wh Hler uld only take him so far a Nazi regime creasgly set on eraditg homosexualy.
GAY-DOLF HITLER ; FUSSY FASCIST DRAGGED OUT OF CLOSET
Röhm is but one player this ncise, ftly told doc that the Eldorado as a lnchg pad to a broar story about beg gay Nazi Germany. The film never out and yells , but is also a remr of the Fal Solutn tenor that still acpani much anti-gay and anti-trans rhetoric and, creasgly, policy. He was also a bohemian spir who had a passnate homosexual relatnship wh Manasse Herbst, a Galician Jewish actor who fled Germany 1936.
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).