The truth about homosexuality
and the Nazi Party
Renew
By
Bryan Fischer
May 15, 2008
The Interfaith Alliance, a far-left religious advocacy group in Idaho, has
accused Scott Lively, a scheduled speaker at this weekend's "Shake the
Nation" conference in Boise, of "bearing false witness" and of
being "mean-spirited and hurtful."
Lively's crime? In his book, "The Pink
Swastika," Lively exposes a secret homosexual activists don't want you to
know about Nazi Germany: that although the Nazis did persecute homosexuals, the
homosexuals the Nazis persecuted were almost exclusively the effeminate members
of the gay community in Germany, and that much of the mistreatment was
administered by masculine homosexuals who despised effeminacy in all its forms.
Ludwig Lenz worked at the Sex Research Institute in
In fact, the Nazi Party began in a gay bar in
Hitler eventually had Roehm shot, not because he was
a homosexual but because his influence over the Brown Shirts made him a political
threat to Hitler's control. The Roehm Purge, or
"Night of the Long Knives," was largely implemented by homosexuals.
Hitler's Brown Shirts, the dreaded SA, better known as "Storm
Troopers," were the creation of another homosexual, Gerhard Rossbach, and Storm Troopers were almost exclusively
homosexual. They also, sadly, comprised most of the leadership of the Hitler
Youth, resulting in frequent instances of sexual molestation.
The Brown Shirts were Hitler's enforcers. According to Nazi historian Louis
Snyder, Roehm recruited homosexuals into the SA
because Roehm felt
Of the Brown Shirts, historian Thomas Fuchs says, "The principle function
of this army-like organization was beating up on anyone who opposed the Nazis,
and Hitler believed this was a job best undertaken by homosexuals."
Historian H.R. Knickerbocker writes, "Roehm, as the head of 2,500,000 Storm Troops, had
surrounded himself with a staff of perverts. His chiefs were almost without
exception homosexuals. Indeed, unless a Storm Troop officer
were homosexual, he had no chance of advancement."
Most of Hitler's closest aides were homosexuals or sexual deviants. This circle
included not only Roehm but the Hitler Youth leader,
the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Economics, Hermann Goering (who may
not have been homosexual but who liked to dress in drag, paint his nails and
put rouge on his cheeks), his personal attorney and his bodyguards. Hitler
himself likely functioned as a male prostitute in the days of his youth in
Heinrich Himmler, second in power only to Hitler, was publicly opposed to
homosexuality but may have been a closet homosexual himself, and served Roehm faithfully and loyally until Roehm
fell out of Hitler's favor. Himmler was deeply immersed in the occult, as was
Hitler, which led them ultimately to replace every Christian holiday on the
German calendar with a pagan counterpart.
In fact, Jews and clergy alike were targets of Nazi wrath. One of the favorite
tunes of the Brown Shirts contained this line, "Storm Trooper Comrades,
hang the Jews and put the priests against the wall."
In sum, as Lively points out, the masculine homosexual
movement in
There of course is no question that the Nazis rounded up effeminate homosexuals
and a great many of them died in slave labor camps as a result of mistreatment
and disease. Historians estimate that less than one percent of
Many of the guards and administrators responsible for concentration camp
horrors were themselves homosexuals. Famous Nazi hunter Elie
Weisel was sent to
A Nazi administrator at Treblinka, according to one historian, "had a
harem of little Jewish boys" and "sought in Treblinka only the
satisfaction of his homosexual instincts."
In some camps, SS guards would actually sponsor lotteries to see which of the
"young attractive homosexuals" would go to whom, while at the same
time, according to one historian, they "lashed out with special fury
against those who showed effeminate traits." A Pink Triangle survivor
said, "The ones who were soft were the ones who suffered terribly."
The "Butch" homosexual guards and capos were capable of unrestrained
cruelty, sadism and savagery. A guard at
Historian Frank Rector writes of a film made by the SS "that was secretly
made for the enjoyment of a select coterie of Nazis showing
a wild drunken orgy of beautiful boys and handsome young men being whipped,
raped and murdered by the SS."
Even today in
Some parts of the American Nazi movement are explicitly homosexual. The
National Socialist League, in fact, at last word restricts its membership to
homosexual Nazis.
What's the point here? Simply that there is another side to the constant
refrain from homosexual activists who frequently mention the Nazi persecution
of homosexuals and in so doing imply that Christians who oppose the
normalization of homosexuality are in effect crypto-Nazis.
The truth is that Christians and certain portions of the homosexual community
alike had much to fear from the Nazis.
As has been famously said, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat
it. Nazi Germany became the horror that it was because it rejected both
Christianity and its clear teaching about human sexuality. These are mistakes
no sane culture should ever make again.
(Source: The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi
Party, by Scott Lively, Founders Publishing Foundation, 1995.)
© Bryan Fischer