[virgil]

I have never heard about homosexuals among the Teutonic Knights. But in the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which is an accepted and considered an important historical account of the Nazis, the author does mention that homosexuality was prevalent in Ernst Roehm's S.A. and Hitler for the most part ignored it. Hitler and Roehm were supposedly good friends. But there were members in the Nazi Party who hated Roehm and his gay thugs and Hitler began to see the public relation liability that it would be. So, they were purged...according to the book. I did not know Hitler was gay, just a sick man.

[steve-b]

My recollection is that Roehm was homosexual; dunno about the SA in general. In any case, the purging of the SA was simply Machiavellian politics -- the Nazis had made some respectable connections to the seats of power, and their gang of street thugs had become a net liability and potential threat to Hitler's control of the Party.