EnglishGROSS:. Rohm had been assassinated – pardon my German (laughter).
BEACHY: No, generally not very.
GROSS: Pardon my pronunciation. As he was assassinated, Heinrich Himmler took over enforcement of this law that is anti-gay big tits webcam. And things got actually bad then.
BEACHY: Appropriate, and Himmler and Rohm had been sworn enemies. Himmler had been mind regarding the other Nazi militia – smaller company, the SS – more ideological, more elite and also at minimum during the early many years of the motion, maybe maybe not almost as effective – also formed much later on. However with the reduction of Rohm, Himmler then surely could assume more energy in the regime as well as in the motion. In which he has also been then single-handedly in charge of pressing to really have the statutory legislation revised and made more draconian. In which he really spear-headed the campaign then to really expel homosexuality from Nazi Germany.
GROSS: Robert Beachy will likely to be right right back when you look at the last half for the show. Their brand new guide is named “Gay Berlin. ” I am Terry Gross, and also this is OUTDOORS.
GROSS: this really is FRESH AIR. I am Terry Gross back with Robert Beachy, writer of “Gay Berlin. ” It is in regards to the homosexual subculture that flourished in Berlin between your end of World War I plus the increase of this Nazis. Beachy is composing a book that is follow-up homosexuality in Nazi Germany.
Where did homosexuality fit into the Nazi anxiety about contamination?
BEACHY: that is a great question. The Nazis really rejected the theory that homosexuality had been somehow congenital, biological, natural, plus they embraced that which was a much older – a more conservative and conventional view. Homosexuality had been something which may be learned. It may be a learned behavior, and it also actually distribute just like an illness or perhaps a contagion, how you described it. Continue reading “Between World Wars, Gay Customs Flourished In Berlin”