Ernst Röhm, The Hight-Rankg Gay Nazi - JSTOR Daily

Contents:

• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• GAY MEN
• HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS
• WAS HERICH HIMMLER GAY
• THE NAZIS TOLERATED GAYS. THEN EVERYTHG CHANGED
• HERICH HIMMLER IS GAY
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

Furthermore, his unrstandg of homosexualy and homosexuals was stark ntrast to his ials and therefore emphasized a stereotype homosexual that was characterized as a wardly, weak, effemate man. The rult of this homosexual stereotype addn to his perceived heteronormative expectatns for men led him to disregard any possibily that homosexuals uld mata mascule attribut.

GAY MEN

Röhm's mascule homosexual stereotype jeopardized Himmler's unrstandg of homosexualy and masculy, which forced Himmler to manver his own unrstandg of sexualy to avoid both the mascule and effemate stereotyp. '” She go further, wonrg if “the purge of the SA and the killg of Röhm reprented the leral objective rrelative for the supprsn and reprsn of the homosexual sir their own Nazism?

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. They arrted gay men and tortured them, forcg them to give up their addrs books and nam of partners an attempt to create a register of all gay men Germany.

HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS

Followg the Nazi vasn of the Netherlands, Frieda worked for the gay ristance group the CKC, arrangg for false papers for those persecuted and hunted by the Nazis.

WAS HERICH HIMMLER 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. 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?

Adolf Hler’s regime overturned all prev attempts Germany to crimalize same-sex acts, to challenge bigoted stereotyp about homosexualy, and to create tablishments where the men uld live and socialize openly. Although the Third Reich was one of the most heartlsly homophobic regim morn history, practilly no first-hand acunts of Nazi vlence agast gay men existed eher Wt or East Germany before the early 1970s.

THE NAZIS TOLERATED GAYS. THEN EVERYTHG CHANGED

” That same year, the Soviet zone of occupatn (later the German Democratic Republic), Rudolf Klimmer appealed to the Organizatn of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime to offer regnn of gay men as victims of Natnal Socialist terror. Acrdg to Erik Jensen, gays and lbians “not only met silence the postwar perd regardg the Nazi persecutn of homosexuals, but they also faced the pernic myth that homosexuals themselv formed the backbone of the Nazi movement. Calls for gay and lbian liberatn the palist mocraci the late 1960s and early ‘70s did fally create a more open atmosphere for the history of the opprsn of gays and lbians the Third Reich to emerge.

Two years later filmmaker Rosa von Prnheim released Nicht r Homosexuelle ist pervers, sonrn die Suatn, r er lebt (The Homosexual is not Perverse, But, Rather, the Suatn Which He Liv.

HERICH HIMMLER IS GAY

) Prnheim (born Holger Radke 1942) had actually taken the name “Rosa” (German for Pk) to draw attentn to the Pk Triangle, the intifitn badge assigned by the SS to homosexuals the ncentratn mps. We sat down wh Sir John Dermot Turg, Alan Turg’s nephew and thor of a new book on Bletchley Park, to discs his uncle’s role pivotal role puter science and his persecutn for beg gay the 1950s.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Here's how the two are lked“One n anize the qutn of female prostutn, which by parison wh this qutn [of male homosexualy] prciple is pletely harmls, a way that is acceptable for a civilized people.

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").

The pk triangle, renred hot pk as a gay pri and gay rights symbol, was origally renred pk and ed poted downward on a Nazi ncentratn mp badge to note homosexual men. 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 burned, and homosexuals wh the Nazi Party self were murred.