The Hidden Fuhrer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
by Fenton Bailey, Gabriel Rotello, Randy Barbato
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Actor: Adolf Hitler, Geoffrey Giles, Lawrence Mass, Lothar Machtan, Ron RosenbaumDirector: Fenton Bailey, Gabriel Rotello, Randy Barbato
Producer: Gabriel Rotello
Editor: Blake West
Producer: Caroline Stack
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
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DVD Review: Up is down, left is right, the victim is the victimizer
Summary: 1 Stars
"Understandably nobody wants to 'claim Hitler' as a part of their social construct or world view. But facts are facts."
Yes, facts are facts. Here are a few:
1. Homosexuality is not a mental disorder. Credible researchers, beginning with Dr. Hooker (the first to avoid using a polluted sample of men with a history of treatment for mental illness) in the 1950s, came to that conclusion which belatedly became consensus of the legitimate mental health community of experts in 1973. I say belatedly because the anti-gay animus of many members of the APA interfered with their ability to rationally. Indeed, one of the top experts that Hooker sent her folders to for independent review was so certain, prior to reviewing her work, that homosexuality was a mental illness that he went through the data evaluation process twice -- before concluding that he was utterly wrong. He could find no difference between the two groups of men in terms of mental adjustment.
As a result of this fact, any rational person will understand that all forms of heterosexist discrimination are irrational. The only refuge for such attitudes lie in the realm of religion.
As neither homosexuality or heterosexuality are mental disorders, the sexuality of Hitler is a matter best described with one word: trivial. To attempt to argue that Nazism is a manifestation of homosexuality, something born due to homosexuality, is to attempt to argue that homosexuality is a mental illness. Facts are facts, eh?
2. Amateurish interpretations of totalitarian imagery and themes may lend, superficially, to the belief that homosexuality and Nazism are interlinked. Bogus Youtube videos about Hitler's fictitious homosexuality, for instance, often show photos of highly masculine imagery and the like -- failing to comprehend the true meaning behind such images. Those images are not mere sexual fetishism, they are the representation of patriarchal heterosexual male dominance -- in the form of the state. They are symbolic, and interpretations that argue that the chief attribute of totalitarian imagery (including that which uses masculine bodies) is homosexual sexual taste are utterly preposterous. One of the reasons, indeed, that homosexuality was deemed incompatible with the Nazi state, both in terms of the populace and in terms of the military -- and purges occurred -- is due to the mistaken belief that homosexuality in men is akin to effeminacy. There is also the issue of the subversion of the patriarchal statist social structure by the presence of gay men; their existence questions the rigid code of Nazi totalitarianism in which women were expected to be highly fertile and men were expected to be extremely powerful. This is patriarchal "family values" heterosexuality taken to an extreme. You will see strong men and fertile women over and over again in utopian heterosexual imagery. The ghoulish mechanized ultra-masculine bodies of totalitarian imagery are merely the totalitarian version of such fantasy -- in which the state, rather than a religion, is depicted as the actor -- and upstanding male citizens are supposed to not only bow to such power, but strive to become part of it through such things as military service.
Such totalitarian heterosexuality is the antithesis of typical homosexual utopian concepts. Furthermore, the stereotypical quips about "Hitler's limp wrist" and so forth, that also accompany these pseudo-historical pseudo-academic musings (in order to explain the brutal systematic oppression of Germany's homosexuals) contradict the faulty central claim that the Nazi leaders represent a highly masculine "S&M" variety of homosexual male, a variety that systematically eliminated effeminate homosexuals for whatever reason.
3. Nazism was one of history's most clear-cut examples of a social philosophy that was opposed to homosexuality. The temporary involvement of a token number of homosexuals in the movement (I saw temporary as there is something called the Night of the Long Knives, for instance) does not change this fact -- a fact that is established by the entirety of the history of the movement. This is a history in which homosexuals were first castrated or jailed for being gay, Paragraph 175 of the code was modified to contain even more anti-gay animus, and homosexuals were eventually rounded up and thrown into concentration camps, camps in which they were often segregated from other inmates and were treated to such things as being dunked with buckets of cold water outdoors in cold weather and pseudo-scientific medical experimentation.
4. The history that has been ignored is not the mythical homosexuality of Nazism, it has been the plight of gay men. Germany, post Nazism, did not recognize gay Holocaust survivors. They received no restitution, the small number who survived the particularly brutal treatment. In recent times, some Jewish groups have held protests over the opening of Holocaust museums. Whatever for, one immediately asks. They protested the inclusion of gay survivors' stories. This is the reality of our day, and the past in question. It is a reality in which mainstream politicians routinely defy reality by positing that gay citizens aren't fully human (don't deserve the right to have their marriages recognized, don't deserve the right to adopt, and so forth). Nazism was not an isolated example of anti-gay animus. Heterosexism and homophobia are easy to find today, world-wide. Texts that try to engage in some of the most preposterous victim-blaming in history, such as those that argue that Nazism is due to homosexuality, are more of the same.
Even if we were to believe in this fantasy about Germany's past and the role of homosexuals in it, there is no scientific evidence whatsoever that homosexuality is a disorder. None. That means that homosexuality itself has no bearing on the mental state of the people in question in the past or present. Instead, all that we're left with is the idea that cultural conditions (heterosexism/homophobia) alone motivated a number of homosexuals to form and execute Nazism. So, even going out on the most fantastical of limbs (that a highly vulnerable brutally victimized minority is really the victimizer in disguise) -- we're left with the impossibility that homosexuality, the sexual orientation itself, is relevant beyond being a cautionary tale as to why it's a bad idea to treat gay people badly!
Homosexuality does not influence mental adjustment. The only thing that is relevant at all is anti-gay animus. So, even if one believes in such pseudo-history, one must blame anti-gay animus for the behavior of those involved! That conclusion, unfortunately, like the truth of the history, completely undermines the demagogic purpose of such literature.
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 Fürher, ignited a storm of controversy. Award winning filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato explore areas of the Führer?s private life.Bestsellers in DVD
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