[First Amendment]

Regarding the SS purging of Rohm and many leaders of the SA (the Night of the Long Knives)- it was publicly pretending to be purging depravity, but according to "The Pink Swastika" by Lively (I mentioned earlier in this thread) it was a power struggle between the SA and the SS. Many of the leaders who weren't killed were just as depraved and perverted as some of the ones who were. Many political opponents -leaders of other political parties were killed that night.
The Nazis often publicly denounced homosexuality/perversion but it was essentially a publicity ploy. There was also division among the homosexual elements, the "butches" and the "femmes". Hitler surrounded himself with homosexuals, before and after the purge.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

What about Hitler's neice Geli? She was a child when she began this horrible affair with him and then he had her killed!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1582340080/103-3443868-6694245?vi=glance

Few people know of the affair Adolf Hitler had with his niece, Geli Raubal. The couple shared a strangely intense, passionate relationship, but it was always dogged by Hitler's intolerance, his chauvinistic attitude to womanhood and his possessive jealousy.

In 1931, aged 23, Geli Raubal was found dead in the Munich flat she shared with Hitler, his revolver on the floor and an unfinished letter on the table. Hitler was shattered by his niece's death, and for the rest of his life couldn't speak...

[thatdewd]

Regarding the SS purging of Rohm and many leaders of the SA (the Night of the Long Knives)- it was publicly pretending to be purging depravity, but according to "The Pink Swastika" by Lively (I mentioned earlier in this thread) it was a power struggle between the SA and the SS.

It was definitely the result of a power struggle between Rohm and the prudish Himmler, and it wasn't easy for Himmler to overcome Adolf's protective and tolerating opinion of Rohm. That in itself has to make one wonder, because Hitler knew how extremely depraved the pervert Rohm had become, and protected him anyway. Himmler had to convince him that Rohm posed a direct political threat to his leadership before Adolf would let Himmler make his move on the SA. Himmler was so uptight about certain things that he could be a poster child for 'repressed tendencies', if you know what I mean. No doubt many of his people were like Rohm's, but they were smart enough to hide it from Heinrich, who was very image concious. He may have been the only straight one there, but still twisted in a thousand other ways.