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> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:48:20 GMT, "Sir Marksman"
>  wrote:
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>>"Dionisio"  wrote in message
>>news:N822e.21741$rL3.11048{at}fe2.columbus.rr.com...
>>> Sir Marksman wrote:
>>>
>>>>"jeremyfive"  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>If you think George W. Bush is the best president in a
decade, you
>>>>>would have loved Attila the Hun.
>>>>>
>>>> Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm sure he didn't mean to imply that you were gay.
>>>
>>
>>I am sure he meant he would love his gawd, hitler.
>
>
> Hitler was gay - and killed to hide it, book says
>
> Kate Connolly in Berlin
> The Observer
>
> Adolf Hitler was gay - or so says a sensational new biography on the
> Nazi dictator due to be published tomorrow.
>
> Eyewitness accounts from Hitler's former lovers, and historical
> documents that for the first time illuminate rumours that have
> circulated for over half a century, are disclosed in Hitler's Secret:
> The Double Life of a Dictator .
>
> The respected German historian Lothar Machtan even claims in his book
> that Hitler ordered the deaths of several high-ranking Nazis to
> prevent the secret of his homosexuality from surfacing.
>
> Ernst Röhm, the leader of Hitler's Sturm Abteilung or Storm Troopers,
> tried to blackmail Hitler by threatening to reveal his sexuality.
> Röhm, who was also gay, was murdered as a result, according to
> Machtan, a history teacher at Bremen University.
>
> He refers to scores of historical documents to support his thesis. In
> 1915, the young Hitler was a dispatch rider at the front in France.
> Years later, yet before Hitler became infamous, one of his fellow
> soldiers, Hans Mend, wrote in his memoirs: 'At night, Hitler lay with
> Schmidl, his male whore.' Schmidl, otherwise known as Ernst Schmidt,
> and Hitler were 'inseparable lovers' for five years, according to
> Machtan.
>
> Hitler's service notes read that as a result of the love affair there
> was reluctance among senior officers to promote him. According to
> Erich Ebermeier, a lawyer and writer who viewed Hitler's military
> files years later: 'Despite his bravery towards the enemy, because of
> his homosexual activity he lost out on a promotion to non-commissioned
> officer.'
>
> Police reports from Munich after the First World War also suggest that
> Hitler was pursued by police because of his sexual orientation. 'As a
> "brown" [fascist] activist, Hitler managed to lure many young men to
> his side, but not only for political reasons,' says Machtan.
>
> According to a Munich police protocol from the early part of the 20th
> century, a 22-year-old man called Joseph told the police: 'I spent the
> whole night with him.' Another, Michael, who was 18, told them: 'I had
> been unemployed for months, and my mother and my brother were always
> hungry, so, at his request, I accompanied the man to his home.'
> Another, a boy called Franz, said: 'He asked me if I'd like to stay
> with him and he told me his name was Adolf Hitler.'
>
> The police reports were collected by Otto von Lossow, a German army
> general who took part in suppressing the Hitler putsch in 1923. He
> kept the Munich police file for years, as, he described it, 'a form of
> personal life insurance'. If Hitler had attempted to push him aside,
> he would have blackmailed him with the information, he said. The
> police documents were published some years ago in Rome by Eugen
> Dollmann, a close friend of Heinrich Himmler's and also Hitler's
> interpreter. But because his book never appeared in German, the
> startling information remained largely overlooked by historians.
>
> Machtan says that Hitler was particularly drawn to Rudolf Hess, his
> deputy, who was known in party circles as 'black Emma' and with whom
> he had spent months in Landsberg prison.
>
> Why, then, did the Nazis persecute homosexuals, sending hundreds of
> thousands of them to their deaths in labour camps and the gas
> chambers?
>
> 'Hitler himself never condemned homosexuality, but he allowed the
> persecution of gays in order to disguise his own true colours,'
> Machtan says.
>
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/

Hitler is today's LIEberal gawd.




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