Nazi Views On Homosexuality
“Anyone who thinks of homosexual love is our enemy. We
reject anything which emasculates our people and makes it a plaything
for our enemies, for we know that life is fight, and it is madness
to think that men will ever embrace fraternally”
“I wish to explore a few ideas on the subject of homosexuality.
Amongst certain homosexuals there exists the following point of
view: "what I do is of no importance to anyone else, it is
a personal and private matter." Everything which touches
upon sexual matters ceases to be private when the life or death
of a nation depends on it. It is the difference between world
domination or annihilation ... A nation with many children can gain supremacy and mastery of
the wordl. A pure race with few children already as one foot in
the grave; in fifty or a hundred years it will be of no significance;
in two hundred years it will be extinct. It is essential to realise
that if we allow this infection to continue in Germany without
being able to fight it, it will be the end of Germany, of the
Germanic world. Unfortunately this is not the simple matter it
was for our forefathers. For them, the few isolated cases were
simply abnormalities; they drowned them in bogs. Those who found
bodies in the mire did not know that in 90% of the cases they
found themselves face to face with a homosexual who had been drowned
with all his belongings. This was not punishment, more the simple
elimination of this particular abnormality. It is vital we rid
ourselves of them; like weed we must pull them up, throw them
on the fire and burn them. This is not out of a spirit of vengeance,
but of necessity; these creatures must be exterminated.”
Rudolf Höss (Commandant of Auschwitz):
“I found the habits and mentality of the various kinds of
homosexuala and the study of their psyches under prison conditions,
extemely instructive.”
“He lectured me on the role of homosexuality in history and
politics. It had destroyed ancient Greece he said. Once rife,
it extended its contagious effects like an ineluctable law of
nature to the best and most manly of characters, elimination from
the reproductive process those very men on whose offspring a nation
depended. The immediate result of the vice, however, was that
unnatural passion swiftly became dominant in public affairs if
it were allowed to spread unchecked.”
Sources: People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History. |