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| | address [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] by his first name "Adolf" rather than "mein Führer" which helped prompt rumors that [[Adolf Hitler]] was a [[homosexuality|homosexual]].]] | | address [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] by his first name "Adolf" rather than "mein Führer" which helped prompt rumors that [[Adolf Hitler]] was a [[homosexuality|homosexual]].]] |
| | Moral decline prior to Nazi [[Germany]], [[Religious Upbringing and Culture Affects Rates of Homosexuality|which spawned]] an increase in the acceptance of [[homosexuality]] in German society, occurred about 35 years before the [[Nazi]]s took power and it paved the way for the Nazis to take power. A large part of the increase of support for homosexuality beforehand, including Germany becoming the birthplace of the so-called "Gay Rights" movement, originated with a particular man, [[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]], who had been molested by his riding instructor at age 14 and attributed his homosexuality to a "third sex" instead of his molestation.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20061112052424/http://www.lifeandlibertyministries.com/archives/000278.php</ref> The Nazis were rabid [[evolution]]ists who insisted that the "[[evolutionary racism|German master race]]" should dominate other so-called inferior races. Belief in [[evolution]] has been linked to a decline of morality.<ref>[https://creation.com/morals-decline-linked-to-belief-in-evolution Morals decline linked to belief in evolution]</ref> | | Moral decline prior to Nazi [[Germany]], [[Religious Upbringing and Culture Affects Rates of Homosexuality|which spawned]] an increase in the acceptance of [[homosexuality]] in German society, occurred about 35 years before the [[Nazi]]s took power and it paved the way for the Nazis to take power. A large part of the increase of support for homosexuality beforehand, including Germany becoming the birthplace of the so-called "Gay Rights" movement, originated with a particular man, [[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]], who had been molested by his riding instructor at age 14 and attributed his homosexuality to a "third sex" instead of his molestation.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20061112052424/http://www.lifeandlibertyministries.com/archives/000278.php</ref> The Nazis were rabid [[evolution]]ists who insisted that the "[[evolutionary racism|German master race]]" should dominate other so-called inferior races. Belief in [[evolution]] has been linked to a decline of morality.<ref>[https://creation.com/morals-decline-linked-to-belief-in-evolution Morals decline linked to belief in evolution]</ref> |
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| | + | The Jewish Holocaust survivor [[Elie Wiesel]] made note of Nazi homosexualist perversion in his memoir ''Night'':<ref>[https://archive.org/details/eliewiesel-nightfulltext/page/n71/mode/2up Night], p. 48. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved October 8, 2023.</ref> |
| | + | {{cquote|Our tent leader was a German. An assassin's face, fleshy lips, hands resembling a wolf's paws. The camp's food had agreed with him; he could hardly move, he was so fat. Like the head of the camp, he liked children. Immediately after our arrival, he had bread brought for them, some soup and margarine. (In fact, this affection was not entirely altruistic; there existed here a veritable traffic of children among homosexuals, I learned later.)|||''Night'', p. 48}} |
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| | The American journalist H. R. Knickerbocker wrote about the homosexual Nazi leader [[Ernst Röhm]]: Röhm's "chiefs, men of the rank of Gruppenfuehrer or Obergruppenfuehrer, commanding units of several hundred thousand [[Storm Troopers]], were almost without exception homosexuals. Indeed, unless a Storm Troop officer were homosexual, he had no chance of advancement."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RwGwpIBHhgcC&lpg=PR2&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=false Is Tomorrow Hitler's? by H. R. Knickerbocker, page 34]</ref> | | The American journalist H. R. Knickerbocker wrote about the homosexual Nazi leader [[Ernst Röhm]]: Röhm's "chiefs, men of the rank of Gruppenfuehrer or Obergruppenfuehrer, commanding units of several hundred thousand [[Storm Troopers]], were almost without exception homosexuals. Indeed, unless a Storm Troop officer were homosexual, he had no chance of advancement."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RwGwpIBHhgcC&lpg=PR2&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=false Is Tomorrow Hitler's? by H. R. Knickerbocker, page 34]</ref> |