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Heinrich Himmler:

On Homosexuals


The first homosexual rights movement seems to have originated in Germany in the late 19th century. For many years an academic journal - the Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen - was published and Germany had an active gay movement. This movement was ended when the Nazis, besotted with notions of racial purity and genetic deviants, took control. So absolute was there destruction of the gay movement that it was not known about in the post war years until the mid 1970's. It is important to recognised that the typology of the fetid and infectious homosexual preceeds the AIDS epidemic.


"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"

Heinrich Himmler, 14 May 1928

"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.

Heinrich Himmler, 18 Feb 1937

"I found the habits and mentality of the various kinds of homosexuala and the study of their psyches under prison conditions, extemely instructive."

Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz.

"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".

Rudolh Diels, first chief of the Gestapo, reporting a conversation with Hitler.


Such attitudes are not dead.

"Bartow Florida, December 2nd: The ACLU is opposing a county sheriff's policy that forces homosexual prisoners to wear pink bracelets. For 15 years homosexuals at a jail in Polk county in Central Florida have been segregated and worn pink writsbands. "All hell would break lose if homosexuals were allowed to mix with the general population," said Seriff lawrence Crow, Jr. A sheriff's spokeswomsn said there was no special reason for pink. "It's really an off-red", she said."

New York Times, 30 Dec. 1989

Some straight people have now come to the defence. But where are the rest?

"On all sides, the baying of hounds can be heard, with eager voices urging them on. Homosexuals are being portrayed - literally as well as metaphorically - as creatures scarcely human; they are being abused not in just the old mocking way but in the foulest terms, meant with deadly seriousness; they are experiencing an increase in discrimination over a wide range of situations; already voices have been raised to demand the "cleansing" of schools, as they have been for the purging of the Church."

Bernard Levin, The Times [London], 28 Dec 1987


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