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Contents:

• HLER WAS GAY - AND KILLED TO HI , BOOK SAYS
• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• WAS HLER GAY?
• WAS ADOLF HLER GAY? MAYBE, SAYS NEW EVINCE, BUT DO IT MATTER?
• AFA'S BRYAN FISCHER CLAIMS NAZI PARTY 'STARTED IN A GAY BAR,' SAYS ONLY 'HARDRE HOMOSEXUAL' MEN ADVANCED UP THE RANKS
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• 'THE PECULIAR SEX LIFE OF ADOLF HLER' OFFERS SIGHT TO THE DICTATOR'S GAY PARTNERS
• ADOLF HLER WAS GAY
• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• WHY THE MYTH OF THE “GAY NAZI” IS BACK CIRCULATN

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. 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?

'” 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. Some of Machtan’s most impassned crics are gay historians who are unrstandably ncerned that any nnectn between homosexualy and the man who began WW2 and butchered lns is about the worst thg that uld happen to the e of gay pri.

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

However, pic was ma by gay filmmakers (Bailey’s and Barbato’s range of work clus “101 Rent Boys, ” “The Ey of Tammy Faye” and “Party Monster”); ’s unspoolg at gay-themed fts; and nclus wh arguments by gay activists and thkers that historians have long downplayed or ignored gay subject matter — Hler clud. Even wh a homoerotic readg of some Nazi art, such ncerns hardly pot to a particular sexual leang; like Italian Fascism’s obssn wh fx-Roman sign, the Nazi athetic is as imbedd imperialist romantic nostalgia as is a grand view of excsive malens. 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. Roosevelt, and stat that Hler was 'both homosexual and heterosexual' 70-page report also claims Adolf Hler was 'sexually attracted' to his puty Fuhrer, Rudolf Hs, who - says - was a known transvte. 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.

'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. 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.

WAS HLER GAY?

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.

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:. 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).

WAS ADOLF HLER GAY? MAYBE, SAYS NEW EVINCE, BUT DO IT MATTER?

’ 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. 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. 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.

Homosexual, impotent, mono-tticular or fted wh syphilis – Hler’s manift cleverns had to be unrmed by creatg the imprsn of a volatile hysteric whose polil perversy had origs sexual perversn. 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.

AFA'S BRYAN FISCHER CLAIMS NAZI PARTY 'STARTED IN A GAY BAR,' SAYS ONLY 'HARDRE HOMOSEXUAL' MEN ADVANCED UP THE RANKS

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.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

In a sense, Tucholsky’s terventn nnot be accepted as valid the stggle agast Nazism; but is a timely and persuasively genero ntributn to the argument about homosexual equaly.

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

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. 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. For stance, if Hler had been a homosexual — and many of his associat knew and remarked about their diari, and was monly, if quietly, assumed by the German public durg the Third Reich, and Hler’s fear of beg "outed" fueled some of the most btal purg of the Nazi Party ranks — you might thk that b of trivia would have e out, so to speak, before now. Lothar Machtan’s book, "The Hidn Hler" (Basic Books, $26), is the first to foc exclively on the possibily that Hler was gay, and the first such suggtn to have been translated to English.

Hler’s var social and polil relatnships wh acknowledged homosexuals; his asexual relatnships wh women, cludg his niece; and claims ma by others published acunts and private diari, make up much of Machtan’s evince. But as Cathy Renna of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn wr her review of the book, "Fair is fair — if we claim the lik of Michelangelo and Joan of Arc, we have to acknowledge ls-sirable members of the ranks. Predictably, though, is Field’s speculatns on the Fuhrer’s sexualy which have attracted the most anthropologist said that rmatn he had obtaed led him to believe that Hler was “a sadomasochistic type of man wh possibly even a homosexual streak him” of the rmatn on Hler’s sex life me om Ernst Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, a close iend of the dictator throughout his rise to promence the 1920s and early 1930s who fled to the UK after fallg out of the Fuhrer’s favour.

ADOLF HLER WAS GAY

Hanfstaengl told US operativ that the Vienne hostel where Hler lived as a young artist had “the reputatn of beg a place where elrly men went search of young men for homosexual pleasur”, although there is no evince of Hler’s volvement such were even mours of a sexual attractn between Hler and his puty Rudolf Hs, who was said to have “attend balls drsed female attire”, apparently earng him the nickname “Frle Anna” om fellow party summary, Field wr that Hler’s “sex life is dual as is his polil outlook” - jt as his polil life he “is both Socialist and fervent Natnalist”, his personal life he “is both homosexual and heterosexual”. However, gay webse LGBTQ Natn utns that the report should be taken wh a large gra of salt, and that “ntas lghably bad psychologil analysis”, cludg speculatn that Hler’s mother “que possibly enjoyed” beg physilly abed by his ’s report was jt one of several OSS dossiers piled durg the Send World War which varly claimed the Nazi dictator was gay, asexual or a fetishist.

The not were recently released to the public and Hler's physicians disclosed the followg:"[The doctors] wrote 'Homosex' the space provid for Hler's sexualy.

However, I thk his sexual orientatn is qutn maly bee beg gay, lbian, transsexual, transgenred, queer, or any other form of sexual "viance, " is ntroversial and often stigmatized today's wouldn't surprise me if some people start believg that his cel and human actns were ed by his sexualy.

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

This already pots to how the wrers who say "Hler was gay" are puttg their own sp on the actual actually mak this story tertg is the fact that we're learng about this now. Conservative rad host Bryan Fischer claimed on Tuday that the Nazi Party started "a gay bar Munich" and only "hardre homosexual" officers advanced through the ranks of Adolf Hler's regime. He last flhed out the qutnable claims on the New Year's Eve edn of his show, Fol Pot, durg which he claimed he knew the specific gatherg place that served as the birthplace of Hler's alleged gay party.

"Seemgly anticipatg unterarguments potg out that Nazis were fact vilently homophobic, sendg large numbers to their aths ncentratn mps, Fischer sisted that only a certa type of gay man was targeted.

"In addn to erroneo historil claims, Fischer has also attempted to pat morn day gay activists as "Nazis" who hope to m genoci agast relig people wh homophobic views.

WHY THE MYTH OF THE “GAY NAZI” IS BACK CIRCULATN

It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power. In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach. Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works.

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.

For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them.