Sex & the Swastika

[rj]

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> What I'd like to know is, when this OSS psychoanalytic assessment of Hitler
> became broadly known outside intelligence and super-hepcat political
> circles. 

DeLillo, *Running Dog, 1978 (p 52):
    "On the other hand there were the early days with Geli Raubal. His
niece. Story goes he forced her to model for dirty pictures. Close-ups
and such."
    "Who drew the pictures?"
    "He did," Lightborne said.    
    "Hitler."
    "So you have this pornographic interest. You have the fact that
movies were screened for him all the time in Berlin and Obersalzburg,
sometimes two a day. Those Nazis had a thing for movies. They put
everything on film. Executions, even, at his personal request. Film was
essential to the Nazi era. Myth, dreams, memory. He like lewd movies
too, according to some. Even Hollywood stuff, girls with legs."
    [....]
    "You see, he's endlessly fascinating. The whole Nazi era. People
can't get enough. If it's Nazis, it's automatically erotic. The
violence, the rituals, the leather, the jackboots. Then whole thing for
uniforms and paraphernalia. He whipped his niece, did you know that?"
    "Hitler."
    "He used a bull whip, story goes."
    Lightborne broke a saltine cracker and dropped the pieces into his
tomato soup."
    "Not that I don't remain skeptical," he said. "I remain highly
skeptical."
[Conversation re. the rumoured existence of a pornographic film made in
der Fuhrer's suicide bunker under the Reich Chancellery in Berlin in
April 1945. It's a good read btw.]

Chaplin's *The Great Dictator* plays around with der Fuhrer's reputed
peccadilloes also (précis in *Running Dog* at 60-61). 

There's another comparison between the way a CIA/FBI-type organisation
has complete profiles on sexual quirks and other predilections of
various U.S. public figures, and the S.S.(?) keeping the same sorts of
dossiers about the Nazi bigwigs in the novel, but I can't find a page
ref. at the moment. Or maybe I dreamed it ...

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