-There is a great deal of morbid sexuality in Hitler's ravings about the Jews...Mein Kampf is sprinkled with lurid allusions to uncouth Jews seducing innocent Christian girls...As Rudolph Olden has pointed out, one of the roots of Hitler's anti-Semitism may have been his tortured sexual envy. so far as is known he had no relations of any kind with women during his sojourn in Vienna. (26) Politics is sex by other means is one of my Life Aphorisms so I do find Hitler's sexual life (or lack) highly relevant.
-Julius Streicher...a noted pervert...(26)
-...[Hitler in WWI], as soldiers go,...was a peculiar fellow...he had not even a combat soldier's interest in women...(30)
-...Ernst Roehm...A tough, ruthless, driving man--albeit, like so many of the early Nazis, a homosexual...(38)
-...the homosexual Roehm...(39)
-Hermann Esser...made no secret that for a time he lived well off the generosity of some of his mistresses. (49)
-...Murderers, pimps, homosexual perverts, drug addicts...Such were the men whom Hitler gathered around him in the early years...(50)
-Streicher...depraved sadist...A famous fornicator...[wrote] lurid tales of Jewish sexual crimes...its obscenity was nauseating. Streicher was also a noted pornographist (50)
-...on the subject of syphilis, Hitler devotes ten turgid pages [of Mein Kampf]...(80)
-Women, whom Nietzsche never had...(100)*
-Many of [the S.A.'s] top leaders, beginning with its chief, Roehm, were notorious homosexual perverts. Lieutenant Edmund Heines...was not only a homosexual but a convicted murderer. These two and dozens of others quarreled and feuded as only men of unnatural sexual inclinations, with their peculiar jealousies, can. (120)
-...a conglomeration of pimps, murderers, homosexuals, alcoholics and blackmailers...(122) Hand-written in margin over a check mark "again."
-...a demand...that the criminals and especially the perverts be expelled from the movement...(120)
There it is most pointedly: expel "the criminals and especially the perverts"! "Are all skinheads gay?" (Sacha Baron Cohen, Bruno). Now, I ask you, even for 1950, is that not obsessive? "Not only a homosexual but," to make matters worse, "a convicted murderer"! (Being a Nazi, eh.) Homosexuals explicitly linked with murderers. "Unnatural sexual inclinations", sickening. How does Shirer know how gay men quarrel and feud as only they can "with their peculiar jealousies"? lol.
It is very strange to me that erudite, cosmopolitan William Shirer, who lived in Weimar Germany, the undisputed world capitol of sexual decadence, would go out of his way to single out same-sex sex from 1) bestiality, 2) lesbianism 3) rampant female heterosexual promiscuity 4) sado-masochism 5) ubiquitous whore houses and strip bars for special opprobrium? That is really deep-dyed homophobia. And that's just in the first 122 pages.
*For this post's purpose that is the only relevant clause in this footnote. To sweeten the present with humor the passage continues, ...he consigned to a distinctly inferior status...He went further. In Thus Spake Zarathustra he exclaims: "Thou goest to woman? Do not forget thy whip!"--which prompted Bertrand Russell to quip, "Nine women out of ten would have got the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women..." Has there ever been a better put-down? Ho-ho-ho.
