Was Hitler's Homosexuality Nazism's Best-Kept Secret?

Insight Magazine ^ | Feb. 4, 2002 | Nathaniel S. Lehrman

[Dog Gone]

First I've heard of this.

[mlmr]

No, I have always heard of Hitler's homosexuality and the homosexuality of Nazism in general.

[scholar]

Great article. Thank you. I have done some research on Hitler and the Third Reich but never ran across this. Obviously will have to do some more research.

[JohnGalt]

This is made up crap err...dubious historical evidence to support such a claim, for selling yet another Hitler book.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

hmmmmm. So now Hitler was gay? And all this time I thought he was just a paranoid anti-semetic who figured he could rule the world.

I always thought he looked at Hermann Goering funny in those old newsreels.

[Flintlock.5Ocal]

It would explain the content of your average episode of "Oz"

[Shermy]

Sounds like Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

[Dog Gone]

So the thing with Eva Braun was just for the cameras?

[Thud]

Which is why so many German homosexuals were murdered in concentration camps.

The Nazis were psychotic killers. Of everybody.

I expect the next article on the subject to blame Jews for it too.

[tang-soo]

Several months ago, I heard an interview on Dr. Stanley Monteith's radio show (Radio Liberty) of an author who's book dealt with this. It was called The Pink Swastika - by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams. I did a google search on Pink Swastika and found many references.

[Michael.SF.]

dubious historical evidence to support such a claim, for selling yet another Hitler book.

I understand there is an old axiom in the publishing business, which goes something like this:

If you want to sell a lousy book, put a swastika on it.

Michael

[ambrose]

The Aryans in Oz are hard core butt munchers.

[Robert Teesdale]

To All:

What nonsense. Why do these pseudoscholars keep finding a need to make up ridiculous assertions?

Whether Hitler was homosexual or heterosexual, I personally suspect his preference was rather irrelevant to his desire to rule massive amounts of land mass with unquestioned power over life and death.

And quite frankly, the posted article appears to be little more than an attempt to cast the specter of genocidal fascist tendencies upon anyone not of the author's sexual orientation.

Now, if you want to know something really bizarre about Hitler's sex life - here's an anecdote. Of the seven women he is known to have had sexual relations with, six attempted suicide and five succeeded.

Rather unnerving.

Best regards to all,

Robert Teesdale
www.teesdale.com

[Zeroisanumber]

Actually he kept Braun as far off camera as possible. Few outside of his inner-circle and the staff at his private retreat knew of his relationship with Braun until after the war.

As for Hitler being gay, I think that reading the book would tell me a lot more about the author then it would about the dictator.

[Malcolm]

As fruity as AH was, it's certainly not hard to believe. If he was, it explains a lot.....

[stanz]

This is made up crap...

I was thinking exactly that.

[stanz]

He also loved German Shepherds....

[Michael.SF.]

So Hitler was Gay?

Let's see if we can get some mileage out of this.

There is a Gay Republican group called the Log cabin Society. So named because they believe that old Abe was gay, because he once maybe-we-think-we-heard-we-don't-know-for-sure-but-it-is-a-good-story-anyway, shared a double bed with another man (a fairly common practice back then).

So extending this to Adolf being gay, maybe we should now refer to organized Gay groups along these lines, how about:

The Fueher's fags?
Adolf's allies?
The Goose step brigade?
Munich Muncher's?
Hitler's Homo's?
Doing the Adolf? (as in doing the Lewinsky)

I have previously heard that he engaged in sado masochistic sexual practices, but have never heard this one. I think this is a reach, a further reach then trying to turn Abe into an adolf-ally.