“BEFORE HITLER BECAME FUHRER, his peculiar relationships with women, or lack of them, became noticeable and many commentators secretly believed that he was either asexual or homosexual. This belief was based largely on the fact that during the early days of the Nazi Party, many of his inner circle were wellknown homosexuals.” (Nizkor Report: 1943)
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BOYS,
BOYS, BOYS: Wilhelm Frick, Hermann Kriebel, Erich Ludendorff, Hitler,
Wilhelm Bruckner and Ernst Roehm; 1923
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It was also widely known that Hitler preferred to have either gay or bisexual men as his personal bodyguards and chauffeurs. Lothar Machtan (Hidden Hitler: 2001) and other scholars have all agreed that “homoeroticism and homosexuality were cornerstones of fascist male-bonding culture prior to 1933.” By this time, Munich newspapers had begun calling the Nazi Party’s Storm Troopers the “Brotherhood of Poofs” because their leader, Ernst Roehm, and most of the provincial leaders he appointed, were homosexuals. Rumors also circulated about others within the Nazi leadership, including Hitler. View Table of Contents
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media’s ridicule caused alarm in the Nazi Party hierarchy and both
Heinrich Himmler (SS chief) and Joseph Goebbels (propaganda
chief) advised their boss to do something to change the negative
perceptions of the German electorate.
The
eventual solution to the problem was fourfold. In a bid to make Nazi
Party members “more electable” and “more respectable”
beginning in 1933 and on into 1934, documents revealing the truth
about the rampant homosexuality within the Nazi Party would be seized
and then destroyed; “Queen” Ernst Roehm, who had become very
powerful as head of the Storm Troopers would be eliminated; new
anti-homosexual laws would be introduced and gay men in the higher
echelons of the party would either be married off, imprisoned or
murdered.
Hitler then authorized an edict in 1941 prescribing the
death penalty for SS and police members found guilty of gay
activity.” (Holocaust Memorial Museum: 2015) The
extermination of homosexuals as “sub-humans” and “aberrants”
would happen later...
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TAKING
UP THE REAR: Hitler leads a troop of Brownshirts including Ernst
Roehm (second row, center) following him
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The book is 498 pages long and costs €5.25. The Peculiar Sex Life of Adolf Hitler is available to buy on Amazon here.
