Was Hitler gay?

[Chris Burford]

One of the puzzling things about this was why this is not a more prominent 
feature of  the psychodynamic profile by Langer for the US Office of 
Strategic Services in 1943, but I have not been able to search the whole 
document. This particular report was not published at all till 1972, and it 
may reflect that it was more convenient for the western powers to present 
Hitler as an example of utter evil, than a complex individual in a complex 
psycho-social, political and economic, environment.

In 1999 a Channel 4 programme reworked some of the issues in these papers 
but did not emphasise homosexuality rather heterosexual sado-masochistic 
practices.

http://www.channel4.com/plus/secret_history/sex6.html

People on the left have not taken this latest book up, and probably would 
not want to emphasise the theme if it was to lead to more prejudice against 
homosexual behaviour.

It may be that the real psychological story is one of Hitler as a victim of 
physical and sexual abuse. To explore this however, would be to do a much 
deeper job of unpacking the modernist 20th century idealist versions of 
history.

I have seen some speculative stuff on the internet that could make out 
quite a case for abuse, but I do not know the details of Hitler's biography 
to be able to suggest whether this possibility is a sound one.

Whatever the truth, "gay" does not seem intuitively to convey what Hitler's 
psychological problems were.

Chris Burford

London