tangentially GR-related: essay re book on Hitler

[Otto]

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From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 4:44 AM
Subject: tangentially GR-related: essay re book on Hitler


> http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/01/14/machtan/index.html
>
> "[...] But that's not what Machtan is trying to do; what he is trying to
do
> is prove that Hitler was a homosexual. Not a maniac or a paranoid --
> Machtan doesn't waste steam on what we already know -- but a homosexual,
> and the major resistance to this idea is coming, understandably, from
> homosexuals -- who are anxious not to see Hitler's name with "gay" in
front
> of it -- and from sympathetic liberals. [...] "

A quick search delivered 381 hits - so this book gets some resonance, but
the thesis is mostly rejected, the evidences seem not to be hard enough.

all in German, but Google translates:
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,161811,00.html
http://www.bild.de/service/archiv/2001/oct/06/news/schwul/schwul.html
some interesting pictures
http://www.gayforum.de/kultur/02895.shtml
of course the gay movement is interested in this
http://www.f3j.com.br/gringoland/fotos/hitler/PA070017.jpg
Hitler Schwul? Germany's yellow press

Otto