I'm with Brewer - Hitler was a looney. The pre-war years are far more interesting and telling of Hitler's character. I find it funny how so many nazis are anti homosexual when homosexuality and nazism are so intertwined. There were many that influenced Hitler's rise to power but none so much as two of his closest 'chums'.
Hitler's rise largely was due to the two brilliant homosexuals who mentored and tutored him: Roehm, a notorious pederast and a contemporary, and Dietrich Eckart, 21 years his senior. Roehm, a career staff officer during the war, had access to both secret army funds and to military and right-wing groups such as the ultranationalist, anti-Semitic and homoerotic Freikorps -- the fiercely anticommunist terrorist squads that sprang up, especially in eastern Germany, in response to the political chaos of the early Weimar Republic. Eckart was a fiercely anti-Semitic journalist and playwright who taught Hitler political tactics and introduced him to Munich and Berlin society, as well as to other wealthy people throughout the country.
Mentored and tutored by a notorius pederast. One can't help but wonder if Adolf played for both teams - if you know what I mean...
That's interesting history Haushofer. I give you that you know your sh*t.
Even if AH played for both teams I'd still vote for him and his way of thinking. NS is genius and/or brilliant. In every way I can think of I see nothing wrong with it.