Posted on 02/05/2002 12:58:18 PM PST by Double Eagle Sword of Justice
Adolf Hitler's homosexuality has been demonstrated beyond question by German historian Lothar Machtan's massively researched new book, The Hidden Hitler, which shows homosexuality's central role in Hitler's personal life.
But the crucial role within the Nazi movement of the most vicious and lawless types of homosexuality, which Machtan also shows, is even more important than Hitler's personal preference. In 1933, six months after Hitler took power, the distinguished Jewish author Ludwig Lewisohn described what Machtan confirms, that "the entire [Nazi] movement is in fact and by certain aspects of its avowed ideology drenched through and through with homoerotic feeling and practice." And those homosexual currents inextricably were connected with vicious German militarism long before the Nazis.
Hitler quit school at age 16 and in 1909 moved to Vienna, where he twice took and failed the Art Academy's entrance examination. Shortly after his move, August Kubizek, a young man from his hometown, joined him and they lived together for four months. Intensely jealous, Hitler wrote Kubizek, "I cannot endure it when you consort and converse with other young people."
Hitler's adolescent move to sexually liberated Vienna — so new to him and so different from home — and his open choice there of homosexuality calls to mind the choice involved in what Charles Socarides calls America's "Thanksgiving Day Massacre." His book, Homosexuality: A Freedom Too Far, describes that "massacre" as when a college freshman, home for the first time after months at a sexually liberated college, joyfully informs his startled parents, "Hey Mom, hey Dad! Be thankful! I have something to tell you. I'm gay!"
For the next several years, Hitler drifted aimlessly. Despite immense Nazi efforts to erase as much of his past as possible (by destroying his massive police records, for example) Machtan dug out clear evidence of Hitler's homosexual activities during this period, such as his five months at a men's hostel known as "a hub of homosexual activity." He formed close attachments to several men, but throughout his life was uninterested in relationships with women.
In May 1913, he moved with another young man to Munich (said to be "a regular El Dorado for homosexuals") and, in September 1914, joined the Bavarian army. He spent the war years as a behind-the-lines messenger, enjoying a long and active sexual relationship with another runner, Ernst Schmidt. At war's end, Hitler returned to Munich and more homosexual activities.
He met at that time Capt. Ernst Roehm, a well-connected army officer who soon offered him his first job — as a political spy for the army within a newly organized workers' party. Hitler's political rise from that point was "meteoric," Machtan writes. Politically "an unknown quantity" when he joined the party in 1919, three years later he had become an important political influence — "the repository of the deutsch-folkisch [roughly German ultranationalist] movement's hopes."
Hitler's rise largely was due to the two brilliant homosexuals who mentored and tutored him: Roehm, a notorious pederast and a contemporary, and Dietrich Eckart, 21 years his senior. Roehm, a career staff officer during the war, had access to both secret army funds and to military and right-wing groups such as the ultranationalist, anti-Semitic and homoerotic Freikorps — the fiercely anticommunist terrorist squads that sprang up, especially in eastern Germany, in response to the political chaos of the early Weimar Republic. Eckart was a fiercely anti-Semitic journalist and playwright who taught Hitler political tactics and introduced him to Munich and Berlin society, as well as to other wealthy people throughout the country.
In April 1923 Hitler was convicted of treason for his nearly successful coup against the Bavarian government. Sentenced to five years in prison, he was released after nine months. He then began collecting the lawbreakers, sexual and other, who would form the heart of his new Nazi Party. Machtan shows that the party was a sexual swamp from its very beginning, an evil conspiracy in which members held sexual or other criminal secrets over one another's heads. Indeed, Machtan suggests that Hitler's fear that Roehm and other openly homosexual Nazis would "out" him and his associates was a motive for his later murder of Roehm.
The Nazi Party, whose terrorism and conspiracy had won it a maximum of 37 percent of the popular vote, took power in January 1933. In June 1934 Hitler had Roehm — his mentor, one-time closest friend and head of his 3 million-man storm-trooper organization (S.A.) — murdered, along with many of Roehm's homosexual party loyalists and hundreds of nonhomosexual opponents. These peremptory murders destroyed the rule of law in Germany and opened the door for the Holocaust's unprecedented brutalities.
The massacre, and the tighter laws against homosexuality that followed, are used falsely today, especially by some Holocaust-remembrance enterprises, to show that the Nazis actively opposed it and that they persecuted homosexuals just as they did Jews, only to a lesser extent. In a 1931 exposé of the Nazi Party, two years before it took power, the Munich Post attacked "the disgusting hypocrisy that the party demonstrates — outward moral indignation while inside its own ranks the most shameless practices prevail," and said that "every knowledgeable person knows that inside the Hitler party the most flagrant whorishness contemplated by paragraph 175 (defining homosexuality as a criminal offense) is widespread." Machtan confirms that Nazi hypocrisy, noting how "homosexuality was simultaneously proscribed and protected: Hitler had tailored it to his political and personal requirements."
Serious political errors mar this remarkably researched book. The most important involves the role of Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), the well-known Jewish homosexual psychiatrist-researcher whom Machtan calls "the pope of homosexuality," and his being used as an unquestioned authority on the subject. Hirschfeld, recently honored at a conference at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, spent his life seeking to repeal section 175 and get homosexuality accepted. Why then was he such "an object of hatred" by the Nazis and their Freikorps predecessors, with Eckart, for example, viewing him "with positively pathological loathing?"
The answer is the "two irreconcilable philosophies linked by a common dysfunction" [homosexuality] that existed then in Germany: the "Butches" (or "Machos") and the "Femmes," whom Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams differentiate in their invaluable book, The Pink Swastika. "The roots of this conflict span a 70-year period which saw the rise of homosexual militancy in the movement that gave Nazism to the world." Machtan mentions neither the conflict nor the Lively-Abrams book.
The Butches were openly and deliberately lawless. They defied criminal statutes, including those governing homosexuality. As criminals, they were not concerned with trying to change the law. They were anti-Semitic, militaristic and gratuitously brutal. Their sexual ideal was the man-boy relationship extolled and engaged in by the Greeks, Crusaders and Teutonic knights. They considered these pederastic activities morally superior to sex with women, whom they despised as useful only for breeding. Their deepest hatred often was directed against the Femmes and, especially, Hirschfeld, whom they reviled as effeminate and therefore contemptible.
"Femmes," reported variously to be perhaps 5 percent to 15 percent of all homosexuals, saw homosexuality on the same moral level as heterosexuality, rather than above it. They supported the overall rule of law and opposed pederasty and sadomasochism. Many were involved in artistic and scientific activities — dance, music, theater and medicine — and persuaded many German intellectuals, liberals and Jews of homosexuality's acceptability. This acceptance of Femme homosexuality, based partly on seeing homosexuals as a harmless, often creative, "persecuted minority," seriously undermined public awareness of the true threat and acute danger of Macho homosexuals.
Hirschfeld inadvertently helped the Nazis in another way: by keeping many Nazi sex criminals out of prison. Lively and Abrams describe this, but Machtan doesn't. The Prussian authorities, rather than incarcerating many of these criminals, referred them instead for psychiatric treatment at Hirschfeld's Sexual Research Institute. The institute consequently collected an immense amount of material about Nazis' sexual crimes. That's why its records were the first fuel chosen for Nazi book-burning.
Another probable reason for Hitler's anti-Semitism is traditional Judaism's appreciation of women and its fierce opposition to homosexuality and the debasing of women. German-Jewish historian Samuel Igra describes this in his neglected 1945 book, Germany's National Vice. Machtan cites the book but not the concept.
The same assistance Hirschfeld and other Jewish homosexuals, and their liberal and psychiatric supporters, inadvertently gave Nazism by accepting homosexuality is demonstrated by the review of The Hidden Hitler in the New York Times Book Review by psychiatrist Walter Reich, former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Totally ignoring the viciousness of Macho homosexuality, its intimate connection with German militarism and its pivotal role in creating Holocaust brutalities, Reich suggests that if Hitler was indeed homosexual that "may actually serve to humanize" him. When will today's liberal supporters of homosexuality, organized and otherwise, recognize how deliberate defiance of traditional sexual morality can lead to that deliberate defiance of all traditional morality, which defined the Holocaust!
Oh, no. Not again!! (sigh)
Well, thanks for the update.
"My cousin Francis [I of France] and I are in complete agreement -- he wants Vienna, and so do I."
--Emperor Charles V
Both he and his wife ran for public office....
As Libertarians.
The Pink Swastika - click here for the book
I suggest people here should familiarize themselves with this very important book.
I don’t promote this idea either (You now bear false witness against me) and your opinion of me bearing false witness was presented referencing the following.
If he is such a fine parent then he should be more concerned that the conduct he is in fact promoting on this website is detrimental not only to society but to his children who will have to live in that society. OWK does not promote homosexual conduct.
This is in fact true and not false. OWK through his comments does promote the Sodomite lifestyle by fighting for their cause like it or not.
I also said that I thought the Presbyterians condoned Homosexuality.
In this area I was incorrect, I have found, and apologize for my misunderstanding. It was merely my mistake as I thought wrong.
The Bible does mention folks who are apologists of perverted lifestyles as being no better than those who live these lifestyles. OWK promotes governmental approval of this lifestyle since he promotes the abolishment of the Sodomy Laws. This is my witness.
OWK is standing up for rights that do not exist in our constitution (The right to be publicly perverted) and are similar to the rights some people believe that they have to kill their unborn children. Simply because they believe they have these rights does not make it so and does not absolve them of murder. Unfortunately their perverted views are shared with many people who profess to be Christians. The Bible mentions that there are many so called Christians who are not and will not inherit the kingdom of God. Only God will decide who these people are in the end but I still have the right to express my opinion on their status. This is my witness.
You have advocated imprisonment of individuals for the "crime" of consenting adult homsexuality, on several occasions, have you not?
Surely you are not so profound a dullard as to believe that only those things specified in the Bill of Rights, are rights.....
Are you?
Even the Bill of Rights tells you otherwise.
Have you ever even read it?
Most of the Nazi fags went the way of the Brownshirts. Dead or in a concentration camp.
Is my recognition of the right of consenting adults to consume alcohol, a promotion of drinking?
Is there anything but sawdust in that head?
We do jail people for having sex with animals (This is sodomy too)!
Funky.
He simply does not believe in beating people with a stick to persuade them ~~ I don’t promote this idea either (You now bear false witness against me)
Like heck I am "bearing false witness against you". I said NOTHING about your politics; I made a comment about OWK's politics (i.e., he is opposed to State Force on these matters). I did not attack you; I defended OWK.
If my "beating people with a stick" comment happened to touch a nerve (guilty conscience?), attend to that yourself. I never said you were in favor of such a thing; I merely said that OWK was opposed to such a thing.
In short, you are merely stiffening your neck against the Repentance which the Law of God demands of you, by attempting to "spread the guilt around".
But I bore no False Witness, Khepera. You did.
OWK does not promote homosexual conduct. ~~ This is in fact true and not false.
Exactly Right.
OWK through his comments does promote the Sodomite lifestyle by fighting for their cause like it or not.
No, you had it right just a second ago. It is TRUE, and not false, that OWK does not promote homosexual conduct.
In fact, he further opposes "special rights" for homosexuals;
he wants to de-fund their US-government supported homoerotic "Art" shows;
and he wants to abolish the Public Schools and State Colleges where they propagate their views, and "recruit" impressionable youths.
Why, exactly, were you opposed to OWK again? Do you support these things that OWK is trying to abolish??
I also said that I thought the Presbyterians condoned Homosexuality. In this area I was incorrect, I have found, and apologize for my misunderstanding. It was merely my mistake as I thought wrong.
'S Okay. There's "presbyterians", and then there's Presbyterians. The "mainline" Presbyterian Church of the USA (PCUSA) has "flirted" with the ordination of homosexual presbyters (pardon the repugnant pun).
The ORTHODOX Presbyterian Church (OPC), however, does not even ordain women or divorced men, and does not accept homosexuals as communicant members. (though of course they are welcome to come and listen in our pews, if they are quiet and well-behaved; and should they feel moved by the Spirit to repent and confess Christ, they are then welcome to join the Church)
The Bible does mention folks who are apologists of perverted lifestyles as being no better than those who live these lifestyles. OWK promotes governmental approval of this lifestyle since he promotes the abolishment of the Sodomy Laws. This is my witness.
Absence of Law does not indicate approval of behavior.
The government does not have a Law against my brother poking a sharp stick in his eye, but if my brother asked my opinion of the act, I would tell him that I strongly disapproved.
HOWEVER, if Government had a "Anti-Sharp-Stick-In-Your-Own-Eye" Law, I would oppose it. Not because I want people poking sharp sticks in their eyes, but because it's not THE STATE'S job to try and prevent/punish such acts.
OWK is standing up for rights that do not exist in our constitution (The right to be publicly perverted) and are similar to the rights some people believe that they have to kill their unborn children. Simply because they believe they have these rights does not make it so and does not absolve them of murder. Unfortunately their perverted views are shared with many people who profess to be Christians. The Bible mentions that there are many so called Christians who are not and will not inherit the kingdom of God. Only God will decide who these people are in the end but I still have the right to express my opinion on their status. This is my witness.
Amongst the folks who will not inherit the Kingdom of God, are Idolaters.
Statism is Idolatry.
Examine your premises.
Have you thought about what you would have to do to these otherwise peaceful consenting adult homosexuals, if they decided they didn't want to come away to your jail cell willingly?
Or does your mind not extend that far?
I doubt it -- too many big words.
You do realize of course, that sodomy (at least as recognized by most states who penalize it) is not limited to homosexuality, but in fact includes heterosexual contact between mouth and genitalia... right?
Can we assume that you're willing to subject yourself to those same penalties?
Or do you reserve a special exemption for yourself?
Advocating jail for sodomites is much like advocating jail in a male prison for a female prostitute.
Since they're just going to be the victims of Sodomitic Rape for the next ten years (or whatever sentence you prefer), how exactly have you "prevented" Sodomy? All you've done is declare that the punishment for consensual Sodomy will be ten years of non-consensual Sodomy.
This is supposed to make sense?
I understand those terms and do not exempt myself. Not guilty by the way unless you can prove otherwise. I regret I ran as a Libertarian since after close examination I do not support them.
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