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| | [[File:362px-Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1982-159-21A, Nürnberg, Reichsparteitag, Hitler und Röhm.jpg|thumbnail|right|500px|The homosexual [[Ernst Röhm]] was the only [[Nazi]] leader to | | [[File:362px-Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1982-159-21A, Nürnberg, Reichsparteitag, Hitler und Röhm.jpg|thumbnail|right|500px|The homosexual [[Ernst Röhm]] was the only [[Nazi]] leader to |
| | 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 in [[Germany]], [[Religious Upbringing and Culture Affects Rates of Homosexuality|which spawned]] attendant [[homosexuality]], occurred about 35 years before the [[Nazi]]s took power and it paved the way for the Nazis to take power. The Nazis were rabid [[evolution|evolutionists]] who insisted that the "[[evolutionary racism|German master race]]" dominate other so-called inferior races. Belief in [[evolution]] has been linked to a decline of morality.[http://creation.com/morals-decline-linked-to-belief-in-evolution] | + | Moral decline in [[Germany]], [[Religious Upbringing and Culture Affects Rates of Homosexuality|which spawned]] attendant [[homosexuality]], occurred about 35 years before the [[Nazi]]s took power and it paved the way for the Nazis to take power. The Nazis were rabid [[evolution|evolutionists]] who insisted that the "[[evolutionary racism|German master race]]" dominate other so-called inferior races. Belief in [[evolution]] has been linked to a decline of morality.<ref>[http://creation.com/morals-decline-linked-to-belief-in-evolution Morals decline linked to belief in evolution]<ref> |
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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."[http://books.google.com/books?id=RwGwpIBHhgcC&lpg=PR2&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=false] (page 34). | | 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."[http://books.google.com/books?id=RwGwpIBHhgcC&lpg=PR2&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=false] (page 34). |
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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. |
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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.[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005261] 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)."[http://www.lifeandlibertyministries.com/archives/000279.php] | + | Later when [[Adolf Hitler]] came into power, he chose to persecute homosexuals in order to advance his notions of racial struggle.[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005261] 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 Nazism and homosexuality]</ref> |
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| | == See also == | | == See also == |
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| | *[[Homosexuality and pederasty]] | | *[[Homosexuality and pederasty]] |
| | *[[Overcoming homosexuality]] | | *[[Overcoming homosexuality]] |
| | + | ==References== |
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| | [[Category: Homosexuality]] | | [[Category: Homosexuality]] |
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