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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>
===Nazis destroy the Institute for Sex Research===
Often, liberal deniers of the National Socialist–sexual degeneracy connection argue that the Nazis destroyed the Institute for Sex Research because they were "anti-deviancy." However, a firsthand account from the Institute's assistant director indicated otherwise, explaining that the organization compiled incriminating and otherwise embarrassing records of Nazi sexual immorality, which Hitler sought to eradicate evidence of:<ref>Carlson, Allan C. (2007). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Conjugal_America/ktwzDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=samuel+igra&pg=PT66&printsec=frontcover Conjugal America: On the Public Purposes of Marriage]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved October 8, 2023.</ref>
{{cquote|We... had a great many Nazis under treatment at the Institute... We knew too much. It would be against medical principles to provide a list of the Nazi leaders and their perversions [but]...not ten percent of the men who, in 1933, took the fate of Germany into their hands were sexually normal....[W]e possessed about forty thousand confessions and biographical records.|||Ludwig Lenz, assistant director of the Institute for Sex Research}}
===The "anti-homosexual" persecutions===
Later when [[Adolf Hitler]] came into power, he chose to persecute certain 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>
[[Homosexuality]] in the form of hypermasculine male supremacy 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]] in the form of hypermasculine male supremacy 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.