The Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
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Actor: Geoffrey Giles, Lothar Machtan, Marlene Sanders, Peter McGough, Ron RosenbaumCinematographer: Michael Rose
Cinematographer: Christian Menofer
Cinematographer: Harry Frith
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Strand Releasing
DVD Reviews of The Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
DVD Review: Hitler Homosex Spin Out
Summary: 5 Stars
Hitler Homosex Spin Out
The Homosex Roots of the Nazi Party and its Leadership have been known since its earliest days, although still one of the least studied or remarked upon aspects of these hate driven perverts. The so called 'mainstream' media have studiously ignored these facts for decades, if only because the Truth is so Ungood that it might cause the 'Vanilla' (clueless voters / taxpayers) to question the entire Radical Homosex agenda being pushed by said media.
Thus the release of a documentary ["The Hidden Fuhrer - Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality" - Strand Releasing 2004] based on the outstanding book by German Author Lothar Machtan {"The Hidden Hitler" - Basic Books 2001} offers a rare and insightful look in to the Core Value of Nazism and its Leaders - Homo-Anal Perversions and Ephebophilia (Rape of adolescent Boys), albeit with a slightly different spin than Machtan's book.
As was clearly shown in by Authors Lively and Abrams in their important work ("The Pink Swastika") - the Nazi Party was founded by the butch wing of Homo-Anal Perverts active in Germany during the decline of the post WW-1 Weimar Republic. Its real founder was the Notorious Boy Raping former leader of the "Freikorps" (a paramilitary gang) named ERNST R?HM, who as leader of the Jackbooted Brown Shirt Homosex Thugs of the "Sturm Abteilung" (Storm Troopers) was instrumental in the rise of his Homosexual Prot?g? / Boy Toy - Adolf Hitler.
The documentary "The Hidden Fuhrer" follows up on Machtan's book and features interviews with Machtan and others, including prominent German Homosex Activist / Apologists, and also includes archival footage that many may not have seen, or ever had explained to them. For example, the frequently shown clip of Nazis 'Burning Books" is presented and explained for what it truly was - the Destruction of incriminating and embarrassing Medical / Psychiatric Records detailing the various Sick Perversions that were common to the Nazi Leadership at the time.
However, an added bonus to this documentary is the inclusion of what were probably intended as 'serious' rebuttal from German and other Homosexual propagandists, such as Machtan's former teacher Rudiger Lautman, which becomes so Orwellian in its attempted Doublethink as to actually be humorous. For example, although Rohm and Hitler were both Notorious Homo-Anal Perverts with a long and intimate relationship, Lautman would have us believe that they were not sex partners / buggery buddies because: "Rohm was rather unattractive."
As anyone who has ever seen pictures of the Sado Masochistic Homo-Anal Bondage and Buggery festival known as the Frisco 'Folsom Street Fair' can certainly attest, the standards of 'beauty' amongst this crowd are not shared by many outside the cult. Rohm was indeed a battle scarred piggish brute of a man, but this is just peachy keen to Hitler's type of pervert, and Hitler showed himself to be every bit as bent as any of his subordinates.
In fact, it was only when Rohm became a rival to Hitler and threatened to expose him as a Coprophile Pervert of the rankest sort, that it became necessary to eliminate him and other knowing allies in what was referred to as: "The Night of the Long Knives" (also the title of an insightful History Channel Documentary). It should be noted that the first (of the few thousand) Homosex Inmates of the Concentration Camps were mostly Storm Troopers still loyal to Rohm after the execution - although most were let loose and allowed to join the army later on.
For the rest - the documentary does a good job of paralleling Machtan's book, and although many homosex radicals attack his work, none are able to make a dent in his presentation. It also does a good job of distinguishing between the Butch and Fairy (what one old German Pouf called the "Yoo Hoo" boys) camps of the Homosex cult, and how only those homosexuals who were considered a danger to Hitler were targeted by the Reich, while those who cooperated were rewarded just like the rest.
"The Hidden Fuhrer" is an outstanding accompaniment to Machtan's outstanding work, and when read in conjunction with the "Pink Swastika" actually provides a historically accurate, if massively politically incorrect, understanding of the Homosex Perverts who made the Nazi Hate Machine the nightmare it was.
DVD Review: EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY
Summary: 5 Stars
Understandably nobody wants to "claim Hitler" as a part of their social construct or world view. But facts are facts, and what's related here -- taken also together with the info in the The Hidden Hitler, about which this documentary is focused -- is powerful evidence. Not only evidence for "der fuhrer's" youthful romps with other men, his later vainglory in the "men's world" of the WW-I trench warfare, but later in the "muscular homoerotocism" of the Third Reich itself. Not to mention his SA units who were led by the openly homosexual R?hm, and whose units were known to commit pedophilic rapes and drunken homosexual street parties which was costing "der fuhrer" some of his popular support. Another work to consider is Pink Swastika which is hated by the gay movement, but also provides even more supporting detail. Hitler condemns the Jews, capitalists, Bolsheveks, Americans, British, etc., in his "Mein Kampf", but says nothing about homosexuality. Homosexuals later in the Third Reich were interned into the concentration camps -- but only the softer males. The leather-clad S&M phallic-aggressive macho sexual predators who also inhabited the German homosexual scene rose to high positions in the Third Reich, and occupied roles in the machinery of death and destruction. If I could fault this documentary, it is only that it spends too much time apologizing for the implications of Machtan's findings, for the facts of Hitler's and the Nazi movements homoerotic aspects. There are plenty of interviews with leading homosexual scholars and gay-rights advocates, denouncing Machtan and his findings but without giving clarity about why (other than they don't want Hitler identified as homosexual), but not one interview with those who agree with Machtan. One important question raised in the documentary, and which remains unanswered, is "why out of over 100,000 books published about Hitler and the Third Reich is this aspect of his sexual life almost never mentioned?" DVD Review: Unintentionally or purposely funny?
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is absolutely hilarious. I don't understand how one can not see the explosive humor contained within this documentary. Now don't get me wrong, it is a well researched documentary and the evidence is quite convincing. However, the editing and directing of this film is pure comedy. From the rolling purple schwastika in the opening credits you will be laughing non stop. There are scenes of Hitler prancing, Hitler doing limp-wristed heils, nazis doing shirtless leapfrogs, and all other sorts of hilarious gayness. The funniest part of the dvd is when accounts of Hitler's homosexual activities are recounted in English (via voiceover) by people faking German accents. I'm really not sure if this film was made to be intentionally funny or not, but it is and you owe it to yourself and the millions who suffered at the hands of this worthless pile. Its good that we're questioning his sexuality. It decimates Hitler at the highest levels. Anyway, bravo.DVD Review: What Would it Matter?
Summary: 1 Stars
It's like arguing the point of the sexual orientation of staphylococcus aureus: a digression from its primary import. Likewise was Hitler's meatless and alcohol free diet. To investigate the behavioral incidentals of a monster trivializes its monstrousness and can only make it appear not quite so monstrous. Preventing the recurrence of such a monster is paramount and is not served by examining what was not so monstrous. DVD Review: nefarious figure, thoughtful documentary
Summary: 4 Stars
Of course, everything about Nazism and the Holocaust disgusts me and most people. It took strength to rent anything that so much as says the word "Hitler." Still, if this controversy could be used to halt gay rights, I had to see what was going on.
A straight, German professor, Dr. Machtan, wrote a book arguing that Hitler was gay. This documentary looks at his evidence and speaks with individuals that take issue with these assertions. This documentary was rather long. I had to turn it off several times because I was so repulsed by seeing all those swastikas. However, I did like the way the documentarians go through the argument bit by bit; they peeled the onion here.
This documentary begs the question of how can you prove any deceased, pre-Stonewall gay identity. If Hitler loved male camaraderie and never attempted to have a successful relationship with any woman, does that make him gay? He continually stated that Nazism was more important to him than romance and people keep forgetting that "passionate friendships" were common for those born in the 19th century. Countless contemporaries called Hitler homosexual, but were they just hating on him? Hitler liked art and opera, but isn't it stereotypical to jump to a conclusion from that? Ernst Roehm, an openly gay Nazi leader, doesn't get mentioned until the end of the documentary, unlike "Bent" where he's brought up in the beginning. This issue of how "straight" leaders deal with their gay peers was not stressed here, though it's fascinating. This segment reminded me of what people have said about Dr. King and Bayard Rustin or John Lennon and Brian Epstein.
Unfortunately, Dr. Machtan's opponents are not strong debaters. One guy says Hitler could not have prostituted himself because he always had a scowl on his face. Some men, especially pre-Stonewall, like the idea of "rough trade." Another said Hitler could not have had a sexual relationship with Roehm because "Roehm was unattractive." Power and fame make men attractive. The famed, late muralist Diego Rivera has constantly been called ugly, but he was a notorious and successful womanizer. Why should Roehm be different just because he was gay? I do critique the documentarians because they never ask the question if Dr. Machtan is just trying to get paid, completely ignoring how his "conclusions" could affect gays' rights. I wonder if they let him off the hook so often because he volunteered so much time for the documentary.
The documentarians briefly mention J. Edgar Hoover. However, I wish they would have mentioned that a debate about Abraham Lincoln's gayness is raging on this side of the Atlantic as much as one is about Hitler on that side. They never ask, "Why is it that bad figures in history are easily believed to be gay but good figures are challenged constantly?" Besides Abe, note how people are adamant in refusing to think that Jane Austen or Malcolm X could have been lesbian or gay, respectively.
Some American gay studies scholars and gay rights activists are interviewed here. However, their scenes are so small, they might as well have not been included. Many of the mid- and early 20th-century quotes here are read with campy German accents. Who did the creators choose for readings: Dieter, Hans und Franz, or Uter the foreign exchange student?
Of course, I hope that Hitler was not gay. Still, I think this documentary was a good exercise in thinking about deceased leaders and their sexual acts and identities.
Description of The Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
In September 2001, respected German historian Lothar Machtan dropped a bombshell on the world of Hitler studies. Hitler was a secret homosexual. His highly acclaimed and explosive book, The Hidden F?rher, ignited a storm of controversy. Award winning filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato explore areas of the F?hrer's private life.General DVDs
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