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In reply to the discussion: Christian Radio Host: Nazi ‘Race of Super Gay Male Soldiers' Is Coming To ‘Hunt You Down’ [View all]Maedhros
(10,007 posts)39. Actually, the early brownshirts were notorious libertines.
For example, Ernst Roehm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm
Under Röhm, the SA also often took the side of workers in strikes and other labor disputes, attacking strikebreakers and supporting picket lines. SA intimidation contributed to the rise of the Nazis and the violent suppression of left-wing parties during electoral campaigns, but its reputation for street violence and heavy drinking was a hindrance, as was the open homosexuality of Röhm and other SA leaders such as his deputy Edmund Heines.[5][6] One American journalist would later write, "[Röhm's] chiefs, men of the rank of Gruppenfuehrer or Obergruppenfuehrer, commanding units of several hundred thousand Storm Troopers, were almost without exception homosexuals. Indeed, unless a Storm Troop officer were homosexual, he had no chance of advancement."[7] In 1931, the Münchener Post, a Social Democratic newspaper, obtained and published Röhm's letters to a friend discussing his homosexual affairs.
Hitler was aware of Röhm's homosexuality. At this point they were so close that they addressed each other as du (the German familiar form of "you"
. No other top Nazi leader enjoyed that privilege, and their close association led to rumors that Hitler himself was homosexual.[7] Röhm was the only Nazi leader who dared to address Hitler by his first name "Adolf" rather than "mein Führer.
Hitler was aware of Röhm's homosexuality. At this point they were so close that they addressed each other as du (the German familiar form of "you"
Not that this fact in any way justifies fundamentalist idiocy.
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Christian Radio Host: Nazi ‘Race of Super Gay Male Soldiers' Is Coming To ‘Hunt You Down’ [View all]
big_dog
Apr 2014
OP
There are some serious mental disorders circulating in what minds these fools have. n/t
RKP5637
Apr 2014
#26
So all the gays the Nazis put to death in the camps were just mis-direction, huh?
Aristus
Apr 2014
#4
How did so many people grow up without the ability to determine what is nonsense
sinkingfeeling
Apr 2014
#15
Maybe because they've never known (or at least been close to) anyone who doesn't think the way
nomorenomore08
Apr 2014
#51
This has got to be the most weird thing I've heard any of them say before...
penultimate
Apr 2014
#56
FACT: Christian fundamentalists are working to make women servants of men.
Dawson Leery
Apr 2014
#22
Maybe these guys saw Neil Patrick Harris in "Stormship Troopers," in full SS drag.
Paladin
Apr 2014
#38