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Historian Frank Rector records that the German Workers Party-the forerunner to Hitler's Nazi Party-"was founded at a gay bar in Munich, called the Bratworstglockl." (Rector, Frank, The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals, New York: Stein and Day, 1981 :69.)

Jonathan Katz, a gay Holocaust historian, writes, "most, if not all, of its [Nazi Party] founding members were either homosexuals or bisexuals." Katz writes that "the founders of the party were also founders of the `Bund fur Menschenrecht' (The Society for Human Rights), the largest homosexual rights organization in Germany at the time." (Katz, Jonathan, Gay American History: Lesbian and Gay Men in the U.S.A., p.632n94. 6. Haeberle, Erwin J., Hidden From History, Swastika, Pink Triangle, And Yellow Star: The Destruction Of Sexology And The Persecution Of Homosexuals In Nazi Germany, New York: A Meridian Book, 1989:368.)

Pro-gay writer Frank Rector records, "Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach was bisexual, Hitler's private attorney, Reich Legal Director and Minister of Justice Hans Frank was homosexual, Hitler's adjutant Wilhelm Bruckner was bisexual, Deputy Feuhrer Rudolf Hess was bisexual and Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk was homosexual." (Rector, Frank, The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals, p. 56.)

I was hoping to peruse some scriptural twister on this thread when I bumped it. Now, I get all booted up and you guys are talking about queer Nazis? THEY WERE NAZIS. THEY EXTERMINATED JEWS WHILE MARCHING EMIPIALISTICALLY ACROSS EUROPE. Being queer was waaaayyyyyy down the list of idiosyncrasies, IMHO.

I have an interest in the history of WW II and the events leading up to it, and was aware of the "Roehm Threat" facing Hitler. I am surprised at how widespread was homosexual practice within the Nazi party. I consider myself better read and informed on this time period than the average person. Why was this not made more public at the end of the war and thereafter? The documentation cited seems to be thorough. Admittedly, the homosexual behavior pales in the context of the Holocaust.