Sexualität Adolf Hitlers
Despite the Nazi Party's opposition to homosexuality and persecution of homosexuals, some historians have argued that Hitler himself was homosexual or bisexual. Some have argued that he was asexual, whereas others dismiss these claims and believe he was heterosexual.
He met Eva Braun in 1929, and they married on 29 April 1945, a day before their suicide. He was also engaged to two other women earlier in his life.
History
In 1943, the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) received A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler: His Life and Legend, written by Walter C. Langer (with assistance from other leading psychoanalysts) for the purpose of helping the Allies understand the dictator, related to strategic purposes (including post-war purposes).[1] It also appears as the mainstay of the fuller work that is available in book form as The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report, in which Langer's Wartime Report is accompanied by a foreword by his brother, historian William L. Langer, an introduction by Langer himself and an afterword by the Hitler psychoanalytic historian Robert G.L. Waite.[2] 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 report describes Hitler as having "possibly even a homosexual streak in him," although the researchers concluded that the evidence of Hitler's homosexuality was too thin to make any conclusions. One of Hitler's opponents in the Nazi Party, Otto Strasser, claimed that the Nazi dictator forced his niece Geli Raubal to urinate and defecate on him.[3]
Historian Lothar Machtan argues in The Hidden Hitler that Hitler was homosexual. He argues basically on speculation, including Hitler's experiences in Vienna with young friends, his adult relationships with (among others) Ernst Röhm, Ernst Hanfstaengl and Emil Maurice, and the Mend Protocol, a series of allegations made to the Munich Police in the early 1920s by a soldier who served with Hitler during World War I. 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 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.
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In the book, The Mind of Adolf Hitler, it is said: According to Hanfstaengl, Mrs. (Helena) Bechstein, the wife of the famous Berlin piano manufacturer, had groomed Hitler in the expectation that he would marry her daughter, Lottie, who was far from attractive. Out of sense of obligation, Hitler did ask Lottie, but was refused.[4]
After the death of Winifred's husband, Siegfried Wagner, in 1930, Winifred had a relationship with Hitler grew so close that by 1933 there were rumors of impending marriage, but nothing happened.
Leni Riefenstahl was friends with Hitler for 12 years, and reports vary as to whether she ever had an intimate relationship with him.[5] According to Ernst Hanfstaengl, who was a close friend of Hitler throughout the later 1920s and early 1930s, Riefenstahl tried to begin a relationship with Hitler early on but was turned down by him.[6] Riefenstahl, however, categorically denied having any romantic interest in Hitler.
Female relationships
There is strong evidence that Adolf Hitler had relationships with a number of women. The most well-known are shown below.
| Name | Life | Age at death | Cause of death | First contact with Hitler | Relationship | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eva Braun | February 6, 1912- April 30, 1945 | 33 | Double suicide with Hitler | Met in 1929 | Wife | |
| Geli Raubal | June 4, 1908- September 18, 1931 | 23 | Suicide (speculated murder) | Lived with Hitler in 1925 | Niece, speculated lovers | [7] |
| Erna Hanfstaengl | 1885- 1981 | 96 | Natural causes | Met in 1920s | Engaged | |
| Renate Müller | April 26, 1906- October 7, 1937 | 31 | Suicide (speculated murder) | Met in 1930s | Engaged | |
| Maria Reiter | December 23, 1911- 1992 | 81 | Natural causes | Met in 1927 | Lovers | [8] |
| Unity Mitford | August 8, 1914- May 28, 1948 | 33 | Died eight years after attempting suicide from complications related to her suicide attempt | Met in 1934 | Friends, speculated lovers |
References
Further reading
- Rosenbaum, Ron. Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999. ISBN 006095339X.
External links
- A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler: His Life and Legend
- Download "The Young Hitler I Knew"
- Hitler's Lovers - slideshow by Life magazine
- ↑ Walter C. Langer: A Psychological Profile of Adolph Hitler. His Life and Legend. The Wartime Report in original typewritten format is available online here via the Nizkor Project
- ↑ a b Walter C. Langer: The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report. Basic Books, New York 1972, ISBN 0-465-04620-7.
- ↑ http://www.xmag.com/archives/4-09-mar97/article2.html. Strasser, who fled Germany for his life, includes the allegations in his memoirs and was personally interviewed by Langer in the process of researching the wartime report.
- ↑ "The Mind of Adolf Hitler",Walter C. Langer, New York 1972 p.96
- ↑ See Infield, Glenn B. Eva and Adolf New York:1974--Grosset and Dunlap (Interviews with former SS officers who had been close to Hitler and Eva Braun)
- ↑ Tom Mathews: Leni: The life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, by Steven Bach, The Independent, 29. April 2007, S. XX
- ↑ Guido Knopp, Hitler's Women.
- ↑ Rosenbaum, Ron, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of his Evil, Macmillan, 1998, p.114-16.