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Article: The Hidden Hitler. (Books: Heil Mary: like we don't have enough problems--now a new book claims Adolf Hitler was gay? The Advocate's Charles Kaiser grills historian Lothar Machtan, author of the hidden Hitler).(Review)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2001
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The Hidden Hitler. * Lothar Machtan * Basic Books * $26
Was Adolf Hitler a homosexual? In The Hidden Hitler, Lothar Machtan, an associate professor of history at Bremen University in Germany, answers that question with a resounding yes. According to Machtan's book, "it is important to recognize [Hitler's] sexual orientation as a historical fact." And Machtan does not assert that just because of Hitler's "poses," "gestures and body language," "his accessories (mustache, whip, etc.)," his "effeminate cast of feature, his taste for muscular, monumental art," and "the marked pleasure he derived from contemplating the male physique" --characteristics that the author ...