The Peculiar Sex Life of Adolf Hitler

by Siobhan Pat Mulcahy

HITLER'S ABUSIVE CHILDHOOD, his mother fixation, his inner sense of failure and depression, his poor health, his warped philosophy and sexual impotence, his drug addiction and Parkinson’s disease [from 1935], his predominant homosexual tendencies and his ‘perversions’ all affected his attempts to have romantic liaisons with the opposite sex. The fact that he had undersized genitals and only one testicle did not help his cause or his confidence when dealing with women.”
HIS SEXUAL STRUGGLE Like so many of the Hitler paintings floating around after his death, the Fuhrer personality was a fake. It masked the internal struggle raging between his masculine and feminine self. Women may have thrown themselves at his feet during his speeches but in reality, Hitler was an extreme turn-off as a sexual being.
HOMOSEXUAL HITLER His Munich chauffeur, Julius Schreck fulfilled Hitler's fantasies about the great love between a powerful man and his obedient servant. One of Hitler’s most treasured possessions was a love letter written by the homosexual Bavarian-King Ludwig to his coachman and lover for 20 years, Richard Hornig, for which he had paid a fortune when it came up for auction.
…The other man in the Landsberg love triangle was Rudolf Hess (b.1894-d.1987) described politely by some historians as “a somewhat neurotic member of the Nazi party”. Gay lawyer, Erich Ebermayer (Ebermayer Diary: 1959) said: “Hess, known in Party circles as ‘Black Emma’, was for many years the Fuhrer’s partner, especially during their joint detention in Landsberg.” Ebermayer pointed out that after his release from prison in 1925, Hess served for several years as Hitler’s personal secretary in spite of having “no official rank in the Nazi Party”.
It was only when he was sick and tired of paying off blackmailers who knew of his homosexuality that Adolf Hitler decided in the late 1920s to “go straight”. In fact, the first time he is known to have had a girlfriend, he was already 37 while the unlucky girl in question, Maria Reiter, was aged only 16. Also, while he attempted to conduct his heterosexual relationships, he continued to enjoy secret dalliances with men in the background.
HETEROSEXUAL HITLER He is known to have had seven “heterosexual” relationships. And though he had rejected the Catholic Church during WW1, he chose Catholic, convent-educated teenagers as his ideal [Aryan] woman. He also enjoyed the company of women, usually actresses, with sexual experience who were not afraid to indulge his darkest fantasies.
Five of the seven women Hitler had sexual contact with committed suicide and the other two attempted suicide but failed. Four of the women were aged 16 or 17 when he first made sexual advances toward them. (Henriette Hoffmann was aged only 13 when he molested her but they did not have a relationship).
…There are chapters in the book, The Peculiar Sex Life of Adolf Hitler, covering each of Adolf Hitler's gay relationships with August Kubizek, Reinhold Hanisch, Ernst Schmidt, Rudolf Hess, Julius Schreck, (and bodyguards and chauffeurs: Emil Maurice, Christian Weber and Ulrich Graf); there are also chapters on each of his suicidal girlfriends: Suzi Liptauer, Maria Reiter, Geli Raubal, Renate Mueller, Unity Mitford, Inge Ley and Eva Braun (and his dalliances with actresses Jenny Jugo and Leni Riefenstahl and his "intimacy" with Princess Stephanie von Hohenloe are also covered). The beginning of the book has a chapter devoted to both of Adolf Hitler's parents and their influence on his sexuality; his mother Klara Hitler, for whom he had a bizarre mother fixation, the woman he loved beyond all else and had sexual fantasies about, and of course his father, Alois Sr. whose savage beatings Adolf Hitler, ultimately enjoyed.

301 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 29, 2016

Reviews

[Armin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Führerbiographie aus der SchlüsselArschlochperspektive

Der Autor hat sich die sicherlich nicht unbeträchtliche Mühe gemacht, alle potenziellen Sexualpartner Adolf Hitlers aus der Literatur herauszufiltern und dabei das Portrait eines polymorph Perversen zu zeichnen, der sich aber mehr zu Männern hingezogen fühlte. Insofern werden alle Chaffeure und Leibwächter zu Sexualpartnern, so weit dies bei einem impotenten Mann möglich ist.
Kindheit und Jugend folgt so weit Alan Bullocks Hitler a study in Tyranny setzt aber stärkere erotische Akzente und blendet den politischen Aspekt weitgehend aus. Statt dessen kommt der bei Bullock kurz gestreifte Ex-Freund und Geschäftspartner Hanisch ausgiebig zu Wort. Dadurch gerät Hitlers Faulheit in den Fokus, die homosexuelle Komponente in den frühen Jahren der NSDAP arbeitet der Verfasser Kompilator stark heraus. Nach etwa zwei Dritteln kommen die Frauen in Hitlers Bio an die Reihe, die minderjährigen Mädchen, die Matronen und die suicide girls. In dieser Reihe geht Mulcahy auch ausführlichst auf Geli Rauball und Eva Braun ein. Die (selbst???-)gemordete Nichte bietet in ihrer Funktion als Kaviarspenderin auch viel Spielraum zur Analyse von Hitlers Koprophilie, die auch als Erklärungsmuster für Antisemitismus herhalten muss.
Fußnote ist Hitlers angeblicher Sohn aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg, der sich aber irgendwie mit dem früher gezeichneten Bild des wegen seiner Homosexualität nicht beförderten Gefreiten beißt.
Da sich Mulcahy auch hier nicht zu einer eindeutigen Stellungnahme über den Wert seine Quellen bewegen lässt, bleibt sein Werk eine Stoffsammlung, die einen Überblick zu sämtlichen möglichen Vorlieben und Erklärungsmustern bietet, mehr aber auch nicht.
Fazit: Ein gefundenes Fressen für Leute, die sich nicht mehr die Mühe machen müssen, die dreckigen Stellen aus unzähligen Monographien heraus zu suchen. Drei Sterne für den Fleiß, null Punkte für die intellektuelle Leistung.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting. Well researched, well written...This is the story of the private life of Hitler.

[WP · Rating 1 out of 5]

The author doesn't know when or how to use commas. But that's okay, because they also don't know how to write a book that isn't full of factual errors and baseless assumptions.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating

This is a fascinating book which looks at Hitler’s sexuality, his lovers, and especially the women in his life. I learnt a lot about Hitler in this book and it made me realise how little I know about the man himself. His childhood was in turns brutal (his father) to adoring (his mother), and these polar opposites definitely left their mark on Hitler as a man, a tyrannical leader, and in his sex life. The book was well researched, thorough, and captivating.