‘Eldorado’: Netflix Expos the Secret Gay History of Nazi Germany – Rollg Stone

Contents:

• ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI
• NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY
• THE NAZIS TOLERATED GAYS. THEN EVERYTHG CHANGED
• NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI
• THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE
• FROM GAY NAZIS TO 'WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER': A CENTURY OF ARGUG ABOUT GAY PRI
• GAY HOLOT
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS

ERNST RöHM, THE HIGHT-RANKG GAY NAZI

'” 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. 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).

Here we experience the nce that thrived before the fall, at a hiaway for those whose differenc would soon mark them for prison, exile, or, many s, ath ( is timated that between 5, 000 and 15, 000 gay people died the ncentratn mps for vlatg Paragraph 175). In Augt 2016, Palmer — who is bt known for his off-Broadway show “Fabulo Divas of Broadway” and his role on the “Mighty Morph Power Rangers” — was performg at Edburgh Frge Ftival when he stumbled upon an article about the specific targetg of gay men and women unr Hler.

NETFLIX EXPOS THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY

The play relat the story of Werner, a gay man 1930s Berl who assum the inty of his landlady, a German woman who had died unexpectedly, orr to avoid persecutn and imprisonment. Acrdg to the Uned Stat Holot Memorial Mm, gay men were “often subjected to physil and sexual abe by mp guards and fellow mat, ” and some were “beaten and publicly huiated. While our ernment isn’t nductg forced stratns of gay men and women like the Nazis did, given the verable flood of anti-LGBTQ+ (and particularly anti-trans) laws beg passed by state ernments across the Uned Stat, Palmer believ we should be payg very close attentn to the legislative mov before ’s too late.

While may seem unimagable for somethg as horrifyg as the Holot to repeat self, Palmer said he and his -creators want to remd dienc of the current trends towards thorarianism around the world as they watch Werner navigate the terror of beg gay 1930s Berl. Meanwhile, Jens-Christian Wagner, the director of the Buchenwald Memorial, said that the AfD’s actns had “crossed a le” and brand the party “disgtg, unnstutnal, homophobic and historilly revisnist” Wagner also said a ban on genr-clive language at Saxony’s universi would reprent a “vlatn of amic eedom” has already troduced a ban on genr-clive language s schools, a move the AfD claims to have forced through s own mpaigng.

Christiane Northup, a matriarch of women’s alternative health, who rose to fame on the strength of several “Oprah” appearanc and btsellg books, published by the New Age self-help platform Hay Hoe, whose founr, Louise Hay, was famo for tellg gay men dyg of AIDS that they jt didn’t love themselv enough. 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.

THE NAZIS TOLERATED GAYS. THEN EVERYTHG CHANGED

The central argument is that the Nazi regime's emphasis on heterosexualy as an sential mascule tra was ntted by homosexual veterans, who attempted to exert agency by actively fg notns of “masculy, ” the nature of their homosexualy, as well as their stat the Volksgemeschaft (people's muny).

The ways which homosexual men perceived homosexualy relatn to hegemonic mascule norms were diverse: whereas some tried to argue for the patibily of homosexualy and martial masculy, those who were arrted often distanced themselv om their homosexual inty. Der vorliegen Aufsatz hanlt von n Erfahngen und Perspektiven homosexueller Männer im natnalsozialistischen Dtschland, sbonre nen von homosexuellen Veteranen s Ersten Weltkrieg.

Sie versuchten aktiv ihren Handlungsspielrm zu bewahren, m sie Vorstellungen über “Männlichke”, das Wen ihrer Homosexualät sowie ihren Stat nerhalb r Volksgemeschaft selbst fierten. Wie homosexuelle Männer dabei Homosexualät Bezug f hegemoniale Männlichkesnormen wahrnahmen, war ganz unterschiedlich: eige machten sich für die Kompatibilät von Homosexualät und martialischer Männlichke stark, wohgegen diejenigen, die haftiert wurn, sich oft von ihrer Homosexualät distanzierten.

NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI

Die Verfolgung von Homosexuellen im Drten Reich (Parborn: Schöngh, 1990)Google Scholar; Whisnant, Clayton J., Queer Inti and Polics Germany: A History, 1880–1945 (New York: Harrgton Park Prs, 2016), 204-41CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Plant, Richard, The Pk Triangle: The Nazi War agast Homosexuals (New York: Henry Holt, 1986)Google Scholar.

THE NAZI DOCTOR WHO EXPERIMENTED ON GAY PEOPLE – AND BRA HELPED TO PE JTICE

Gellately, Robert and Stoltzf, Nathan (Prceton, NJ: Prceton Universy Prs, 2001), 233-355Google Scholar; on the culture of the SA, see Hanck, Eleanor, Ernst Röhm: Hler's SA Chief of Staff (New York: Palgrave Maclan, 2008)Google Scholar; Wackerfs, Andrew, Stormtrooper Fai: Homosexualy and Communy the Early Nazi Movement (New York: Harrgton Park Prs, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Herzog, Dagmar (New York: Berghahn, 2005), 95-130Google Scholar; Gil, Geofey J., “Legislatg Homophobia the Third Reich: The Radilizatn of Prosecutn agast Homosexualy by the Legal Profsn, ” German History 23, no. 5 The fil are also explored (though whout analysis of the arrte’ ary-service background) Pretzel, Andreas and Roßbach, Gabriele, eds., Wegen r zu erwartenn hohen Strafe: Homosexuellenverfolgung Berl 1933–1945 (Berl: Verlag Rosa Wkel, 2000)Google Scholar.

20 Wackerfs, Stormtrooper Fai, 51; for more on Hans Blüher and Adolf Brand's perspectiv about the mascule image of the homosexual, the warrr ial, and cricisms of “femizatn” and women's rights, see Crouthamel, Jason, An Intimate History of the Front: Masculy, Sexualy and German Soldiers the First World War (New York: Palgrave Maclan, 2014), 130-41Google Scholar. Kls Thewele suggts, his classic study, that the misogyny, vlence, and homoeroticism found the memoirs and wrgs of Freikorps members revealed universal male psychologil tennci. 23 See also Wackerfs, Stormtrooper Fai, 178; Hanck, Eleanor, “‘Only the Real, the Te, the Mascule Held Its Value’: Ernst Röhm, Masculy and Male Homosexualy, ” Journal of the History of Sexualy 8, no.

FROM GAY NAZIS TO 'WE'RE HERE, WE'RE QUEER': A CENTURY OF ARGUG ABOUT GAY PRI

37 Geofey Gil, “The Instutnalizatn of Homosexual Panic the Third Reich, ” Social Outsirs Nazi Germany, 238; see also im, “Männerbund m Homo-Panik: Die Angst r Nazis vor r Rolle r Erotik, ” Natnalsozialistischer Terror gegen Homosexuelle.

GAY HOLOT

44 On anonymo nunciatns, see Andreas Pretzel, “Als Homosexueller Erscheung getreten—Anzeigen und Denunciatnen”; im, “Erst dadurch wird ee wirksame Bekämpfung ermöglicht—Polizeiliche Ermtlungen, ” Pretzel and Roßbach, Wegen r zu erwartenn hohen Strafe, 23-25, 43-73. See also Gil, Geofey J., “A Gray Zone Among the Field Gray Men: Confn the Discrimatn agast Homosexuals the Wehrmacht, ” Gray Zon: Ambiguy and Compromise the Holot and s Aftermath, ed.

81 For example, Stephen Bourne disvered an terview the 1980s wh his heterosexual father that the latter knew of a sergeant the 1950s Royal Air Force who was homosexual, “but didn't bother anyone bee he was liked and rpected. Maxim Martskevich, the 36-year-old Neo-Nazi founr of Occupy Pedophilia, a Rsian vigilante group that tortured spected gay teenagers on vio, has reportedly mted suici while servg a 10-year prison sentence Siberia for an unrelated vlent offense, acrdg to the Mosw Tim. Through Format 18, he allegedly arranged the productn and sale of vios showg immigrants beg 2013, Martskevich beme famo amongst the Wtern LGBTQ muny for his vios associated wh Occupy Pedophilia, his group that ed social media to lure gay men wh promis of sex only to rerd their huiated and physil torment on mera.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

In many of his vios, Martskevich and his horts punched and slapped the gay men, forced them to strip to their unrwear, shaved their heads reverse Mohawks, pated rabows the sheared strip upon their heads, forced them to hold sex toys, ma them state their full nam, had them utter self-nigratg statements like "I suck c*ck" and also forced them to drk one vio, Martskevich brandished a two-pronged fork towards a young man's eye and told him that he uld eher lose his eye or be sodomized wh the fork. One of the most popular groups had 75, 000 followers, acrdg to the Amerin tech news webse The mpaign also spawned a spoff group, Occupy Gerontophilia, which targeted young gay people acced of "prostutg" themselv to olr men.

" The law has sce been ed to shut down LGBTQ youth groups, tnal s as well as to fire gay teachers, arrt people monstratg for LGBTQ rights and harass queer cizens out of the untry. Vær was a Copenhagen doctor who, realisg the opportuni offered by the homophobic polici of the Third Reich, joed the Nazi party and enlisted the SS to pursue his rearch to “cure” gay rearch was nducted on the personal thory of Herich Himmler.

The Gtapo chief mand the “extermatn of abnormal existence … the homosexual mt be entirely elimated” mpaign to expose Vær only took off 1998, when I wrote to the then Danish prime mister, Poul Rasmsen, llg for an quiry to Vær’s wartime activi.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS

Vær met the chief Nazi doctor, Reichsarzt-SS Ernst Grawz, who proposed that he rearch the treatment of homosexualy on behalf of the led to Vær operatg on gay prisoners Buchenwald ncentratn mp, sertg artificial hormone glands their gros. Dpe this predictn, Vær appears to have nvced the Brish and Danish thori that his hormone treatments to turn gay men heterosexual were important, worthy scientific November 1945, rponse to Vær’s claim that he was sufferg om a ser heart ndn, Hemgway thorised his transfer to a Copenhagen hospal. They ma no attempt to prosecute him for war crim, possibly bee they regard his rearch to “cure” homosexualy as legimate, even Danish thori have still not explaed why Vær and his Danish protectors were shield om prosecutn and why took my public challenge to force them to open the Vær fil.

For more than 100 years, polil groups have been fightg on behalf of same-sex sir, genr nonnformy and transn om one genr to the other – although the terms “gay rights” and “trans rights” are relatively recent the late 1800s, a movement that lled self “homosexual emancipatn” formed Germany.

Yet, the historil rerd shows that a small number of men quietly belonged to both the homosexual emancipatn movement and the Nazi Party, though they were not open about their sexualy wh the party. The small factn of gay fascists ld erotic relatnships between manly, “Aryan” soldier typ while loathg femists, Jews and you might image, the different mps wh the homosexual emancipatn movement did not agree on lots of thgs. Fifty years before pri march began, 1920s Berl had a jumpg nightlife of gay male, lbian and transvte tablishments featurg clubs like the Eldorado – known for s cross-drsg wa staff – and dance palac like the Magic Flute.