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While a relative few homosexuals were interned in Nazi work camps, the role of homosexuals in Nazi history is not accurately represented by the pink triangle. Our review of more than 200 history and other texts written since the 1930s suggests that a pink swastika would be equally appropriate: while some homosexuals were jailed by the Nazi party, there is no doubt that the Nazi party itself had many homosexuals within its own ranks, even among its highest leadership.
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One of the keys to understanding both the rise of Nazism and the later persecution of some homosexuals by the Nazis is found in this early history of the German “gay rights” movement. For it was the CE which created and shaped what would become the Nazi persona, and it was the loathing which these “Butches” held for effeminate homosexuals (“Femmes”) which led to the internment of some of the latter in slave labor camps in the Third Reich. Plato, who originated the fascist model of government in The Republic (Weber:11), captures the spirit of the CE in another of his Dialogues, Banquet: “If it were possible to form a state or an army exclusively of homosexuals, these men would direct all their emulations toward honors, and going into battle with such a spirit would, even if their numbers were small, conquer the world” (Plato in Heiden’s Der Fuehrer:741). From today’s vantage point, Plato’s observation seems like an eerie prophecy of Nazism.
From Boy Scouts to Brownshirts
The “Butch” homosexuals of the CE transformed Germany. Their primary vehicle was the German youth movement, known as the Wandervogel (Rovers or Wandering Youth). “In Central Europe,” writes homosexual historian Parker Rossman, “there was another effort to revive the Greek ideal of pedagogic pederasty in the movement of 'Wandering Youth'....Ultimately, Hitler used and transformed the movement...expanding and building upon its romanticism as a basis for the Nazi Party” (Rossman: 103).
Rising spontaneously in the 1890s as an informal hiking and camping society, the Wandervogel became an official organization at the turn of the century, similar to the Boy Scouts. From early on, however, the Wandervogel was dominated and controlled by the pederasts of the CE. CE cofounder Wilhelm Jansen was its chief benefactor, and its leadership was rife with homosexuality. In 1912, CE theorist Hans Blueher wrote The German Wandervogel Movement as an Erotic Phenomenon which told how the organization was used to recruit young boys into homosexuality.
