Adolf Hitler's sexuality has been the subject of much speculation and controversy. Some historians argue that Hitler was homosexual, others argue that he was bisexual, and others that he was asexual.
History
In 1943, the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) published A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler: His Life and Legend, compiled by Walter C. Langer and other leading psychoanalysts as wartime propoganda.[1] The researchers performed a "psychological analysis ... in which an attempt is made to understand Hitler as a person and the motivations underlying his actions." The OSS report states that Hitler was an impotent coprophile.[2] The authors describe Hitler as having, "possibly even a homosexual streak in him." One of Hitler's associates in the Nazi Party, Otto Strasser, reportedly claimed that the Nazi dictator forced his niece to urinate on him.[3]
Historian Lothar Machtan argued in The Hidden Hitler that Hitler may have been homosexual. He primarlity based this on the Mend Protocol, a series of allegations made to the Munich Police in the early 1920s by a former soldier colleague of Hitler. In 2004, HBO produced a documentary film based on Machtan's theory, titled Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality. Mend was a convicted fraudster, and historian Anton Joachimsthaler (TV interview for BBC2 in 2002) is among those who regard the protocol as unreliable. The 2002 book The Pink Swastika, by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, dealt with similar topics. A line-by-line rebuttal, The Annotated Pink Swastika, outlines in detail numerous factual inconsistencies in Lively and Abrams' book.[4]
Jack Nusan Porter, of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, wrote: "Did Hitler despise homosexuals? Was he ashamed of his own homosexual identity? These are areas of psychohistory that are beyond known knowledge. My own feelings are that Hitler was asexual in the traditional sense and had bizarre sexual fetishes."[5]
References
Further reading
- Rosenbaum, Ron. Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999. ISBN 006095339X.
External links
- ↑ Walter Langer, Henry Murray, Ernst Kris, Bertram Lewin: Preface. (GIF) In: A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler: His Life and Legend. Office of Strategic Services, 1943, abgerufen am 23. März 2006.
- ↑ Walter C. Langer: The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report. 1972, ISBN 0-465-04620-7 (google.com).
- ↑ http://www.xmag.com/archives/4-09-mar97/article2.html
- ↑ The Annotated Pink Swastika
- ↑ http://chgs.umn.edu/educational/homosexuals.htm
