re: #122 bratwurst

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.

There’s also all the internal NSDAP communication in which Hitler and his cadre discuss how gross Rohm’s gayness was. And the many public pronouncements after the Night of the Long Knives that the purge was specifically to remove (among others) sexual degenerates from positions of influence.

There’s also the fact we know quite a lot about who Hitler banged, because psychological profiles of the guy were being generated all the way back to 1944, when his age-contemporaries were available to speak on such subjects. Shocker: Hitler was pretty sexually normal.

…but the people making these claim don’t care. Aligning stuff with Nazism is just a magical invocation of Inherent Wrongness.