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Ernst Röhm was the only Nazi leader to address Hitler by his first name "Adolf" rather than "mein Führer" which helped prompt rumors that Hitler was a homosexual. The sexuality of Hitler is a matter of scholarly debate and historians are divided on whether Hitler was heterosexual, bisexual or homosexual.  

Ernst Röhm was the only Nazi leader to address Hitler by his first name "Adolf" rather than "mein Führer" which helped prompt rumors that Hitler was a homosexual. The sexuality of Hitler is a matter of scholarly debate and historians are divided on whether Hitler was heterosexual, bisexual or homosexual.  

Later when [[Adolf Hitler]] came into power, he chose to persecute homosexuals in order to advance his notions of racial struggle.<ref>[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005261 Holocaust Encyclopedia - PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS IN THE THIRD REICH]</ref> Yet at the same time, Hitler retained sexual deviants in positions of power within the Nazi leadership. For example, [[Hermann Goering]] was known to dress in drag, paint his nails and put rouge on his cheeks. Another example is the case of Max Bielas who "had a harem of little Jewish boys. He liked them young, no older than seventeen. He had a kind of parody of the shepherds of Arcadia, their role was to take care of the camp flock of geese. They were dressed like little princes...Bielas had a little barracks built for them that looked like a doll's house...Bielas sought in [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]] only the satisfaction of his homosexual instincts (Steiner:117f)."<ref>[http://www.lifeandlibertyministries.com/archives/000279.php Homosexuality and the Nazi Party - Part 2]</ref>

Later when [[Adolf Hitler]] came into power, he chose to persecute homosexuals in order to advance his notions of racial struggle.<ref>[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005261 Holocaust Encyclopedia - PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS IN THE THIRD REICH]</ref> Yet at the same time, Hitler retained some sexual deviants in positions of power within the Nazi leadership. For example, [[Hermann Goering]] was known to dress in drag, paint his nails and put rouge on his cheeks. Another example is the case of Max Bielas who "had a harem of little Jewish boys. He liked them young, no older than seventeen. He had a kind of parody of the shepherds of Arcadia, their role was to take care of the camp flock of geese. They were dressed like little princes...Bielas had a little barracks built for them that looked like a doll's house...Bielas sought in [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]] only the satisfaction of his homosexual instincts (Steiner:117f)."<ref>[http://www.lifeandlibertyministries.com/archives/000279.php Homosexuality and the Nazi Party - Part 2]</ref>

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