Hitler's sexuality is HBO topic (Claim Hitler Was "Gay")

Yahoo News ^ | Thu Jan 9 2003 | Andrew Wallenstein

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

FYI: Nietzsche was gay

What is this, the "everyone I don't like is gay'" thread? What is the evidence? I've read numerous biographies of Nietzsche, and none of them have made that claim. Quite the reverse.

[Guillermo]

Read William Shirer's book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

[SkyPilot]

Hitler endorsed abortion for the Poles and Jews as a means of ridding the population of "undesirables."

Hitler and Abortion

[aristeides]

I've read the book, and virtually all of the evidence comes from a convicted child molester and fraudster. Hardly the most reliable witness.

"Virtually all of the evidence"? Isn't that an exaggeration? Isn't that just one chapter in a book of 300 pages or so? What do you make of the statement by the general who had access to Hitler's police record?

[mg39]

You wrote that Hitler was a vegan. Actually, Hitler's favorite dish was squab (pigeon) under glass, and he loved sausages too. He went vegetarian for a litte while per his doctor's recommendation in order to treat his flatulence (now there's an image for you), and Goebbels played it up because of the civilized world's admiration for a real vegetarian of the time, Mahatma Gandhi. Don't fall for Goebbel's lie.

[gd124]

It is an exaggeration, but the whole thing seems to me like revisionist history, similar to those who would deny that the holocaust happened, though obviously with a different political agenda. There was an article in Newsweek (I know, I know, I read it in doctors waiting room) some time ago which pointed out the numerous flaws in the theory.

It is interesting that Hitler being homosexual to the best of my knowledge had never been claimed before by any serious historian. Not even the ridiculous and discredited screed "The Pink Swastika", which claimed that virtually every man and his dog, even if he had 10 children was queer, put Hitler in the homosexual basket.

[aristeides]

I once saw a menu of what was served at one meal at the Fuehrerhauptquartier during the war. There was a meat dish for the others, but the Fuehrer (and those who wanted to imitate him) got a vegetarian meal whose elements sounded distinctly unappetizing.

I believe you're right that he was not a strict vegetarian. I understand that, on his frequent trips to Munich, he would often break down, go to eat at the Vier Jahreszeiten, and have what I had understood was his favorite dish of Leberknoedelsuppe (liver dumpling soup,) with which he would even have beer.

[Helms]

Nietzsche, by Rudiger Safranski. Top of the line scholarship.

Sorry, but this is my understanding thru reading quite a bit.

[mg39]

Liver dumpling soup? Mein gott! No wonder he was flatulent.

[tpaine]

John Cusack plays German-Jewish art dealer who befriends Hitler in Max
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