Tuesday 19 April 2016

CHAPTER 8: HITLER’S LAST BOYFRIEND, JULIUS SCHRECK, Amazon eBook, The Peculiar Sex Life of Adolf Hitler


“Even today, Hitler derives pleasure from looking at men’s bodies and associating with homosexuals.” (Nizkor Project: 1943)

FROM THE LATE 1920s onwards, Hitler tried to present himself to the German people as a contented heterosexual bachelor (having been advised to do so by propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels) but this “false personality” was very far from the truth.

While the Nazi machine began to persecute homosexuals, to imprison them and then to murder its own gay SA leaders, Hitler was enjoying a secret gay relationship with Julius Schreck, his personal Munich chauffeur and former bodyguard who would be his last male companion. Schreck fulfiled Hitler's fantasy of the love between a powerful man (him) and his loyal and obedient servant. You can buy The Peculiar Sex Life of Adolf Hitler on Amazon here.

When his chauffeur died suddenly from meningitis in 1936, Adolf Hitler wept for two days and ordered a state funeral at which all the Nazi top brass were expected to attend. Julius Schreck (b.1898-d.1936) took on the role of Hitler’s personal chauffeur, based in Munich, after Emil Maurice was sacked from the job in 1931. Read review of book here
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From 1921 onwards, Schreck had been a prominent member of every bodyguard unit created during the Nazi era. These units changed their names every few years and included the Ordnertruppe [Steward Troop], the Saalschutz [Hall Protection] . . . and finally the Schutzstaffel [Protection Squadron], the latter is better known as the infamous “Black Order” or SS. He also acted as Hitler's doppelganger until ...


PEOPLE WAGON: This drawing is believed to be Hitler’s vision for a German family car; he drew it in a Munich restaurant in 1932 while arguing with Schreck about its design
The book is 498 pages long and costs €5.25. The Peculiar Sex Life of Adolf Hitler is available to buy on Amazon here.