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- From: larry@bradley.bradley.edu (L. D. Stratton)
- Subject: Re: Homosexual Nazis?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.172007.27907@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Organization: Bradley University
- References: <1992Nov27.214328.26282@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <1993Jan22.163418.10191@bradford.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:20:07 GMT
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- In <1993Jan22.163418.10191@bradford.ac.uk> K.M.Hetherington@bradford.ac.uk (KM HETHERINGTON) writes:
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- >There's an interesting bit in "Mein Kampf" where Hitler is describing his
- >teenage years. I will have to paraphrase, as I don't have a copy to hand.
- >He was talking about why he liked a particular school he was sent to on
- >account of all the "Husky boys" there and points out that this interest
- >seriously worried his mother!
- >I'll try and root out the exact quote at some point, but it makes very
- >interesting reading and as for the inplications...
-
- It is known that Hitler had an undescended testicle and historians
- generally attribute him with asexuality.
-
- A far as the Reich is concerned, in its beginnings the Brown Shirts,
- forerunners of the SS, was headed by a fellow whose name escapes me
- but who was homosexual. In 1936 (?) there was a move to consolidate
- power by Himmler, Goebbles, etc. and "The Night of the Long Knives"
- involved a massive purge of many Nazi leaders at the time. One of
- these was the head of the Brown Shirts, a homosexual, and several
- other prominent homosexuals in the Nazi organization and government.
- That is when things turned nasty for gays in Germany.
-
- Hitler himself has never been considered to be gay or even gay-sympathetic.
- When you read the passages in "Mein Kampf" (try to read the German
- original, BTW), there is more humor and sarcasm --- which later turned
- into hatred. Gays in the Third Reich were thought incapable of producing
- any Kinder and the trait nonproductive for the proliferation of the
- 'super-race'.
-