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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] (archived link [https://web.archive.org/web/20061112052449/http://www.lifeandlibertyministries.com/archives/000279.php here])</ref>

Later when [[Adolf Hitler]] came into power, he rightfully chose to persecute homosexuals in accordance with Biblical law.<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] (archived link [https://web.archive.org/web/20061112052449/http://www.lifeandlibertyministries.com/archives/000279.php here])</ref>

[[Homosexuality]] was supported in [[Nazi Germany]], although modern gay rights activists claim that an estimated 100,000 homosexual men were arrested for this crime, of whom approximately 5,000 to 15,000 were interned in [[concentration camps]].<ref name=HTRC>[http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre: Homosexuals]</ref>  See [[Homosexuals and the Holocaust]] for further details.  

[[Homosexuality]] was supported in [[Nazi Germany]], although modern gay rights activists claim that an estimated 100,000 homosexual men were arrested for this crime, of whom approximately 5,000 to 15,000 were interned in [[concentration camps]].<ref name=HTRC>[http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre: Homosexuals]</ref>  See [[Homosexuals and the Holocaust]] for further details.