It has been said that the Nazis propagated the image of Adolf Hitler being a vegetarian who loved animals & children to craft the Hitler as being kind & gentle. If you’ve seen old pictures & Nazi film footage, they sometimes show Hitler feeding animals such as deer & petting dogs, along with having his picture taken with small children. The Nazi press during the 1930s frequently gave the message that Adolf Hitler loves children & dogs. Germany & Austria were advanced when it came to animal welfare laws & veterinary science during the time of Hitler. Of course Germany & Austria was advanced in many areas scientifically.

The topic which has been discussed since the end of WW2, is how could totalitarianism arise in nations as advanced as Germany & Japan. How can nations which have produced great things to culture such Beethoven, Wagner operas & kabuki theaters along with many other great things contributed to science, have produced the likes of Dr. Josef Mengele (Auschwitz) & Shiro Ishii (Unit 731 in Manchuria & the flea bombs which carried biological weapons such as plague, typhoid, etc.? In both Germany & Japan, the schools would teach the kids that the Germans & the Japanese were the greatest of all & in Japan, they would teach kids that Japan had a right to colonize China & other Asian nations. Kids would get punished in both nations if they said that they differed with the teachers, so there was indoctrination.

Hitler in addition to eagles, also had a fascination with ravens & wolves, esp. wolves, that some of the things were named after them. There’s the Eagle’s nest in Bavaria, was the name of a lodge that was given to him on his 50th birthday, but which Hitler only occasionally visited, because he had breathing problems @ that high altitude. The Wolf’s Lair is another lodge & this is where the 1944 failed assasination attempt was made on Hitler’s life (see Nemesis). Late in the war & even after WW2, there was the Nazi guerrilla group called the Werewolves, but the Werewolves failed in that most Germans had had enough of the war & as Germany had lost the war & was in 4 militarized zones, the Werewolves would fail.

Hitler was wounded during WW1, incl. by mustard gas late in WW1, which caused him to have conjunctivitis (see Hubris). During the 2nd World War, Hitler rejected all ideas to use the nerve gases Sarin, Tabun & Soman, which the Allies only learned about after the war. Why Hitler rejected them is open to speculation. Fascist Italy did use nerve gases against Abysinnia (now Ethiopia) during the war in 1936 & Imperial Japan did use biological weapons (such as Shiro Ishii’s flea bombs) against China during the war (1931-45). Both the Axis & the Allies did bombings of civilians be it London, Coventry, Shanghai, Dresden, Pforzeim, Tokyo, Hiroshima & Nagasaki. The Allies had considered doing nerve gas attacks on Germany & Japan. Declassified documents found since the end of the war have found that Churchill had considered doing anthrax attacks on Germany. Both Germany & Japan were trying to build the atom bomb.

The children killed in wars are innocent. There have been many discussions of Dresden, Hiroshima & Nagasaki. For me the topic isn’t the atom bomb but bombing raids where the intent is to kill civilians. During the war, both sides believed that by bombing cities the other nation would surrender. My view on Hiroshima & Nagasaki is that if the U.S. wanted to show Japan the atom bomb’s strength, then the atom bomb could’ve been dropped on a military base or arms factory in Japan, where there would’ve been fewer civilians killed & wounded as a result of collateral damage (such as 1,500 to 2,500) rather than the 150,000 + killed & wounded in Hiroshima & Nagasaki. While Hiroshima did have a miltary base & industries, this was incidental. Both cities were attacked because they had been untouched by the war up to that point. Now if people want to say that bombing cities was what was believed to be the fastest way to end the war, then so be it. My problem is that when the discussion is raised of the kids killed in Dresden, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the topic frequently shifts to London, Holocaust, Bataan etc. (implying that the kids were guilty), when the children killed in Dresden, Hiroshima, Ngasaki,etc. are innocent & didn’t participate in the HOlocaust, Nanking, etc.

Collateral damage deaths are 1 thing, but opposed to bombing raids where the intent is to kill civilians. There were many other places in Japan where the atom bomb could’ve been dropped with fewer civilian deaths as a result of collateral damage. War is a brutality & again both sides bombed civilians because they believed that it would end the war.

Fischer….. So Hitler himself was an active homosexual.

I wonder if Fischer agrees that a homosexual orientation exists and that the the word does not just denote behavior. Because if he doesn’t then the use of the phrase “active homosexual” is redundant.

CWIF – Thanks for the additional info

Timothy – I wondered who was going to get there first. Expect a PFOX news release…

Even if Hitler did have a homosexual period –this is by no means proven — there was a clear shift in attitude toward homosexuals after the murder of Ernst Rohm.

Would that suggest that Hitler was an ex-gay? Oh, my. Well, we’d better discourage that practice!

To paraphrase Fischer, ex-gays gave us the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.

/snark

(my apologies for being flippant about the atrocities that occurred under the Nazi regime)

While I haven’t read Lothar Machtan’s book the Hidden Hitler, I have read the 2 best sellers by Ian Kershaw on Hitler, Hubris (1999) & Nemesis (2000). Some thoughts on Adolf Hitler.

As to the allegation of was Hitler a homosexual ? There’s no reliable proof to confirm or for the same matter refute this. It wasn’t uncommon during the 1920s & 30s for 1’s political opponents to call some1 a homosexual. Most Germans other than in Hitler’s personal circle knew about HItler’s mistress Eva Braun. There has been the allegation that Hitler had the VD syphilis, but there’s no proof to this allegation. Hitler with syphils or a homosexual Hitler is just more interesting when it comes to speculation than a straight Hitler.

Hitler’s charlatan Theo Morell (who gave Hitler many useless drugs) did treat people who suffered from Venereal Disease, but the medical casebook on Adolf Hitler makes no mention of VD. Hitler did have many medical problems. Hitler suffered from gas & took anti-gas pills called Koester (SPL). Hitler self administered enemas & Hitler also took Pervitin, injections & many medicines (often useless) which his Dr. THeo Morell gave him. The medical reports on Hitler is quite explicit, but there’s no mention of Venereal Disease & there’s no mention of homosexuality. Hitler is believed to have suffered from Parkinson’s disease towards the end. Adolf Hitler should really be called straight or even asexual, as it’s not believed that he had much of a sex life with Eva Braun.

Was Hitler a vegetarian? There are conflicting reports. What is known is that Hitler’s diet from 1931 onwards was mostly vegetarian. There’s a 1938 NY Times article where it discusses that Hitler occasionally eats ham & caviar. Other reports have that Hitler enjoyed squab & sausages. Adolf Hitler @ various times called himself a vegetarian & he proselytized about the health benefits of a vegetarian diet. Nazi Germany (later Austria after the 1938 Anschluss) was advanced when it came to animal welfare laws. Hitler signed laws on the fastest way to kill shellfish, humane hunting methods & he signed the law to protect the eagle. In fact, the eagle perched on the Swastika became a Nazi symbol of Germany.

Hitler’s hobbies incl. painting, but he was rejected from the Vienna art school. There’s much more voluminous information on Hitler. Most Germans until after the war, didn’t know about Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress & Hitler married her the day before both of them along with their dog Blondi committed suicide, with Blondi & Eva Braun biting on Prussic acid capsule & Hitler shooting himself, as the Red Army closed in.

As known, there has been voluminous information on the Holocaust. Nazi Germany’s execution or extermination policy on the Jews began in Jan. 1942 after the Lake Wannsee (SPL) conference. From 1933-41, Nazi Germany had an emigration policy when it came to the Jews, but in 1942, it shifted to extermination war. An extermination order has never been found because it was written in euphemisms. Nazi Germany’s alliance with Imperial Japan didn’t officially begin until the Sept. 1940 Tripartite agreement between Germany, Italy & Japan. Nazi Germany also had alliances with Finland (Mannerheim), Bulgaria, Rumania (Antonescu) & Hungary (Horthy) but those alliances were made with threat of declaration of war. Mussolini was the true friend Hitler had when it came to foreign leaders & the alliance between Japan (Oshima Hiroshi was the Japanese diplomat to Germany) & Germany was 1 of convenience.

There’s much more which can be written if you want to do a history discussion. 1 could discuss the Commissar Order, Operation Barbarossa or many other things of WW2. As mentioned in a past post, the Commissar Order really should be called evil men (Nazis) killing other evil men & women (the Soviet Commissars) , as the Soviet Red Army Commissars were ruthless & they sent millions of people in the USSR to their deaths in Stalin’s GULag.