MESOP GOOD GUYS ? : THE DIALECTICS OF HOMOSEXUALITY / HITLER & THE GAY “SA”
In fact, the Nazi Party began in a gay bar in Munich, and Ernst Roehm, Hitler’s right hand in the early days of Nazism, was well-known for his taste in young boys. William Shirer says in his definitive “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” not only that Roehm was “important in the rise of Hitler,” but also “like so many of the early Nazis, (he was) a homosexual.”
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. Read more http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/080515