Just catching up on the recently renewed right wing meme that “Hitler was gay”. This is almost certainly not true, but even if it were it would say absolutely nothing about homosexuals. Hitler was DEFINITELY Austrian, but few people make the leap to suggest that this says anything about Austrians.

Of course, early Hitler supporter and head of the SA Ernst Rhm was gay, and he was not alone in that organization. However, one might think that the fact that he was jailed and killed as part of the “Night of Long Knives” in 1933, and the SA was sidelined from that point on would demonstrate how the Nazi government truly felt about homosexuals. Oh yeah…there is also that fact that an estimated 100,000 men were arrested in Germany as homosexuals between 1933 and 1945.