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IMPORTANT NOTE:
At this time The Pink Swastika has been
mostly but not completely researched, due to the
difficulty in obtaining some of the sources, for
example those that are propaganda pamphlets that
libraries don't usually carry. Undoubtedly there
are more errors, misstatements, and outright lies
than those listed in these notes. The first
release was issued when one of the authors of The
Pink Swastika was touring the United States and
presenting his propaganda to Religious Right
groups, who are using it in their own propaganda.
There seemed to be a need to supply some material
that could be used in refuting the book then. This
latest edition has added considerable material,
and will probably be the last. So many errors are
already listed that the purpose has been well
served without the great effort that would be
needed to locate the final source books for
complete checking of all citations. Little would
be added relative to the list of errors already
found here.
The reader should give the author of The Pink
Swastika the benefit of the doubt, and assume any
typographical errors not noted by "{sic}" were
probably not in the original text of the book.
It cannot be emphasized enough that this
debunking of The Pink Swastika is incomplete.
Those discussing points in the book that have not
yet been researched should mention that this work
is not yet complete, and the fact that something
is not criticized doesn't mean it is accepted as
true. The numerous errors and misstatements in the
parts of the book that have been researched raise
suspicions on everything written in it.
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P R E F A C E
The Pink Swastika belongs to the Crypto
History genre. It claims to reveal connections of
people and groups explaining the course of events
that have been neglected by or even covered up by
establishment historians. A modern and related
example is The New World Order written by Pat
Robertson, televangelist, Republican Presidential
contender, and founder of the Christian Coalition.
Whereas Robertson's book attempts to show
that modern government institutions such as the
Federal Reserve Board arise from a conspiracy of
occult Satanists and "International Bankers," The
Pink Swastika attempts to show that Hitler's
Nazism and the Jewish Holocaust are the work of
homosexuals, and that the Nazi work is being
continued by homosexuals in the United States. In
both cases it is necessary for the author to
establish linkages.
The linkage process tends to be tortuous, and
Robertson tries to link the Federal Reserve to
conspiratorial Satanists by speculating on a chain
involving Cecil Rhodes, the Freemasons, and the
Rothschilds. The Pink Swastika has to include so
many different "links" in some of its "chains"
that the reader who does not soon lose interest is
sure to be confused.
While Robertson wants to show that the
Federal Reserve's mission is to weaken America
economically so that a one world government will
be accepted in preparation for the rule of the
Anti-Christ, The Pink Swastika wants to show that
homosexuals were responsible for Hitler's rise to
power, the slaughter of 6 million Jews, and the
modern neo-Nazi movement in America.
The main technique used is selective quoting
from respectable authors and extensive quoting
from disreputable ones. Samuel Igra is an example
of an author whose work cannot be trusted in any
part, and for that reason it can be difficult to
locate the book he wrote. Igra is quoted
extensively. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke is a genuine
scholar, and his work is quoted selectively. There
are instances where context in Goodrick-Clarke
contradicts what The Pink Swastika wishes to
demonstrate, so that portion of his work is
ignored, a quote being selected from a less
reliable author because it fits better the
homophobic thesis. The same may be said of many
other sources used for The Pink Swastika.
The worst feature of this sort of writing, as
Goodrick-Clarke notes at the end of his book, is
the manufacture of sources -- "...inaccuracies and
wild claims were repeated by each newcomer to the
genre until abundant literature existed...." One
author writes a book that includes mere rumor or
even outright fabrication, and the next author is
able to use it as a citation, giving an unmerited
cloak of scholarship to his work.
The Pink Swastika is full of rumors about
homosexuality of various persons. A man's wife and
children mean nothing if some disreputable past
author can be cited as a source for an allegation
of homosexuality. That Hermann Goering liked
exotic clothes and improved the appearance of his
face with makeup is sufficient to brand him
homosexual, despite his undoubted devotion to both
his wives and his daughter. Rudolph Hess is not
saved by his wife and children, nor is Hans Frank.
Herschel Grynszpan, the Jewish youth who shot
Ernst vom Rath in Paris in 1938, giving the Nazis
an excuse for the "Crystal Night" anti-Jewish
pogrom, is painted as a homosexual prostitute,
even though nothing about homosexuality was ever
uncovered or mentioned until his defense attorney
used it as a successful ploy to postpone
indefinitely his trial for murder.
Nothing in The Pink Swastika can be believed
without checking reliable sources. This study has
checked many of the sources, particularly for the
connection with Hitler and the Nazis, but by no
means all. The portions which have not been
refuted should not be assumed to be accurate just
because no notes have been attached.
With that word of caution, The Pink Swastika
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The
Pink Swastika
Homosexuality in the Nazi Party
Scott Lively
Kevin Abrams
Founders Publishing Corporation
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Published by Founders Publishing Corporation.
Box 20307, Keizer, Oregon 97307
Published July 1995.
Printed in the United States of America
Copyright 1995 by Lively Communications Inc.
and Kevin E. Abrams All rights reserved.
Information about ordering copies of this
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Contents
A Note to the Reader iii
Preface: Kevin E. Abrams iv
Introduction: Scott Lively ix
Acknowledgments xv
One: The Homosexual Roots of the Nazi Party 1
The Divided Movement 6
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 9
Magnus Hirshfeld and the SHC 12
The New Hellenes 15
Adolf Brand and the Community of the Special 19
The Rift Widens 24
The Wandervogel 27
Gerhard Rossbach and the Freikorps Movement 35
Ernst Roehm and the Development of the SA 39
Two: Homo-occultism 46
Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society 51
Guido von List and the Armanen Order 54
Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels and Ariosophy 56
The Thule Society 60
Three: The Homosexual Roots of Fascism 65
Frederich {sic} Nietzsche 68
The Cultural Elites 70
Four: The Founding and Early Years of the Nazi Party 77
Hitler's Pederast Clique 79
Was Adolf Hitler a Homosexual? 82
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The Nazi Rise to Power 86
A Change of Strategy 86
Five: The Persecution of Homosexuals 94
Anti-homosexual Policies 95
The Sacking of the Sex Research Institute 99
The Roehm Purge 102
After the Purge 110
Heinrich Himmler and the SS 111
Reinhard Heydrich: "The Blonde Beast" 115
The Grynszpan Affair -- Kristallnacht 118
Six: Homosexuality in the Concentration Camps 123
The Guards and Kapos 126
The Prisoners 131
The Final Solution 133
Seven: America Nazis 143
The Fascist Roots of American "Gay-Rights" 148
Harry Hay and the Mattachine Society 149
The Stonewall Riot 151
The Pederasts 154
The Boy Scouts 160
Weimar in America 163
The Kinsey Connection 166
The Cauldron Begins to Boil 169
Atrocities 174
The Big Picture 177
Bibliography 200
Ordering Information 205
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A Note to the Reader
Two terms used frequently in this book, 'homosexualist' and "pederast,'
will be unfamiliar to many readers. We use the term homosexualist to refer
to any person, homosexual or not, who actively promotes homosexuality as
morally and socially equivalent to heterosexuality as a basis for social policy.
In our view Harry Hay, founder of the American gay-rights movement, and
President Bill Clinton who attempted to force the military to accept open
homosexuals, are both homosexualists. Each has worked in his own way to
legitimize homosexual behavior in America. Many heterosexual people are
homosexualists. Many self-described homosexual people are not homosexu-
alists. A homosexualist is defined by his actions in a socio-political context.
This definition is different from Samuel Igra's use of the term in Germany's
National Vice, which we have quoted extensively. Igra uses "homosexualist"
to mean homosexuals only.
A pederast is defined as a physically mature man who engages in or
desires to engage in sex with boys around the age of puberty, as opposed to a
pedophile, who targets both male and female prepubescent children and/or
pubertal girls. (Pederast derives from the Greek paed, meaning boy, and
erastis, meaning lover). Self-defined "boy-lovers" who have formed
"children's rights" organizations such as the North American Man/Boy Love
Association (NAMBLA) in this country, and who formed the Gemeinschaft
der Eigenen in Germany, generally seem to focus their sexual attentions on
boys roughly between the ages of 8 and 18 years, with an apparent preference
for boys about 12 years old. Some sources quoted in this study use the terms
"pederast" and "pedophile" interchangeably. We hope to reestablish the dis-
tinction between these terms (dubious as it may be) to facilitate a deeper
understanding of homosexual pathology and the varieties of its expression.
English translation of German words using the umlaut (two dots above
ta {sic} vowel) result in different spellings of words like Fuehrer and Roehm (Fuhrer
and Rohm). In this book we have chosen the form of spelling in which the
vowel is followed by a {sic} "e." Spelling of German words varies among the
authors we quote.
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B' H
{The above stands for a Hebrew invocation. Mr. Abrams is an Orthodox Jew,
formerly of Canada, now living in Jerusalem.}
Preface
Kevin E. Abrams
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day,
That I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse;
Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your children.
Deuteronomy\Devarim: 30:19
The Pink Swastika is not a work of fiction. Ironically, the authors have
discovered that truth is often stranger than fiction. The Pink Swastika is a
response to the "gay political agenda" and its strategy of portraying homo-
sexuals as victims of societal and Nazi persecution. Although some homo-
sexuals, and many of those who were framed with trumped-up charges of
homosexuality, suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis, for gay apologists
to portray themselves as historical victims of Nazi persecution, on par with
the Jewish people. is a gross distortion of history perhaps equal to denying
the Holocaust itself. The Pink Swastika will show that there was far more
brutality, rape, torture and murder committed against innocent people by
Nazi deviants and homosexuals than there ever was against homosexuals.
Today in the West a new and aggressive homosexualism is making its
bid for power. The media, psychiatry, science and academia have all been
corrupted and pressed into the service of establishing homosexuality as a
normal and acceptable variant of human sexuality. Those who are unwilling
to bend to the new dispensation are bludgeoned into submission with slan-
derous accusations of intolerance and "homophobia." Our efforts will cer-
tainly fail to corroborate the politically correct propaganda offered by much
of today's media, academia, psychiatry, various federal agencies, the courts
and human rights organizations which are now driven by the new sexual
ideology rather than by honest debate and inquiry. Coming in the wake of a
successful public campaign conducted over decades, our book will also fly in
the face of much of today's popular opinion. This having been said, we
believe that The Pink Swastika will show clearly how the world the Nazis
attempted to create is a world. not of the past, but of the possible future. It
will show that. given its present course and left unchallenged, America could
easily become the Nazi Germany of 50 years ago.
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It is often said that the lessons of history leave us with a guide for the
future. If this be so, then the lessons of the collapse of the democratic Weimar
Republic and the social ideologies that preceded its defeat by the Nazis should
provide us with insights into America's future. As a practicing member of
the Jewish faith, I remain wholly unconvinced that by solely remembering
the Holocaust we will prevent another. The ominous parallels between the
Weimar Republic of pre-Nazi Germany and today's American republic are
simply too pronounced to overlook.
This year, 1995, is the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. It is
also the 50th anniversary of Samuel Igra's book, Germany's National Vice,
which we quote extensively. Largely purged from public view, Igra's book
documents the homoerotic foundations of German militarism. Other books,
like Dusty Sklar's 1977 The Nazis and the Occult, document the black occult
roots of Nazi ideology. What The Pink Swastika does is to synthesize both
the homoerotic and occult foundations of the Nazi regime. It must be clari-
fied -- the Nazis were not Right Wing Conservative Creationists, they were
Left Wing Darwinian Evolutionary Socialists. As a principle, an increase in
pederasty and homosexualism parallels a militaristic Hellenic revival. His-
tory discloses that the most warlike nations are those whose male leaders
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were the most addicted to sexual relations with young boys.
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The author presumably refers to the ancient
Greek custom of pederasty. That did not involve
"young boys." Those involved were teenagers up to
the age of 18 years. If anything, they were "old"
boys. The elder partners in those relationships
were heterosexual men between the ages of 18 and
30, the usual age for marriage among the Greeks.
Greek pederasty was entirely a heterosexual
phenomenon, and involved three stages: 1. acting
as the passive partner while a teenager, 2. Acting
as the active partner while in one's twenties, 3.
marrying a woman and starting a heterosexual
family at about age 30. But it must also be
questioned whether Greece was "the most warlike"
of nations. Surely Rome outdid Greece militarily,
and Rome never practiced pederasty. Even the very
few Nazis who practiced homosexuality did not
choose young boys. One could go on to mention
Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland,
Russia, Turkey, Arabia, Persia, India, Japan,
China, and many other countries that have
conquered large territories and maintained empires
for long periods of time by use of military power
who had nothing whatever to do with homosexuality
The author's remark is a gross exaggeration.
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The political agenda which has as its focus a plan to legalize and coerce
a bewildered and unsuspecting public into accepting or regarding sodomy as
normal or dignified, is based on falsehood, self-deception and skewed scien-
tific research. In light of the medical record, history and the fact that sodomy
represents a corruption of the natural and moral orders of creation, any posi-
tive affirmation of homosexuality is totally without merit. Human sexuality
is never merely a physical concern, nor is it a purely private matter. It always
has social implications. What goes on between partners influences society as
a whole. In sexual matters, the issue is. "what is advocated and what is
practiced publicly" far more than what happens privately.
In a letter to the editor of the Toronto, Ontario, Globe and Mail newspa-
per, February 26, 1992, Dr. Joseph Bergen Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Toronto, writes, "in my 20 years of psychiatry I have never
come across anyone with innate homosexuality. That notion has been a long
proclaimed gay-activist political position, intended to promote the accep-
tance of homosexuality as a healthy, fully equal alternative expression of
human sexuality. It has zero scientific foundation, though its promoters latch
on to even the flimsiest shreds of atrocious research in their attempts to jus-
tify the notion."
As they were during the Weimar period, 1918-1933, psychiatry and
academia have been hijacked and pressed into the service of establishing
homosexualism as the basis of a new Kultur. Professor Hans Blueher, a
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practicing physician whose specialty was psychiatry, was accepted by the
Nazis as the apostle and higher authority of a new social order. Blueher's
school held that male homosexual lovemaking is in itself a good thing and
spiritually energizing. Blueher's teaching became popular in Nazi circles
during the period between the two World Wars and promoted the idea that a
well-regulated ritual of homosexualism was a unique force capable of creat-
ing the State and assuring its leadership. The resulting creed relegated women
to a purely biological function and eliminated the family as a constituent cell
in the community.
{See Comment vi-1}
In 1973 the American Pyschiatric {sic} Association was also hijacked by
American "gay" activists. Basing its decision largely on the skewed evi-
dence of the 1948 Kinsey report Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, the
APA removed homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistics Manual and
declared it a normal variant of human sexuality. Homosexuals sensing that
the burden of change had been lifted from them and shifted onto society
were able to present themselves as innocent victims of what they referred to
as society's bigoted and "homophobic" attitude towards them as human be-
ings.
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This is a gross misstatement of the facts of
the APA decision. Ronald Bayer told the story of
the decision in his 1981 book Homosexuality and
American Psychiatry. That will be discussed at
length in a later comment. The only input from the
Kinsey Institute was Wardell Pomeroy's testimony
that psychiatric opinion of homosexuality at the
time was based on observation of patients in
treatment, and had no knowledge of homosexuals
leading normal lives. The scientific data most
impressing the APA were gathered by Dr. Evelyn
Hooker and other psychologists having nothing to
do with Kinsey. The major influence on the APA,
however, was not data but its experience in
meeting actual homosexuals, including a large
group of homosexual psychiatrists. These new data
and these people simply did not fit the
classification of "sick," indicating something was
not quite right in the APA's old classification,
so the organization changed it.
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Columnist Charles Krauthammer in "Defining Deviancy Up" an essay
published in the November 22, 1993 edition {sic} of The New Republic (pages
20ff.) in describing the real effect of the APA decision, stated that a majority
of society was made deviant while homosexuality was elevated to the status
of normal. Krauthammer writes, "as part of the vast social project of moral
leveling, it is not enough for the deviant to be normalized. The normal must
be found to be deviant." In fact the greatest single victory of the "gay" agenda
over the past decade has been to shift the debate from behavior to identity,
thus forcing opponents into a position where they are seen as attacking the
civil rights of homosexual citizens rather than attacking specific antisocial
behavior.
In an interesting and informative study, a critical analysis titled "Sexual
Politics and Scientific Logic: the Issue of Homosexuality," by Dr. Charles
Socarides (published in the Winter, 1992 edition of The Journal of
Psychohistory, Vol. 10, No.3:317), Socarides quotes the warning of Abram
Kardiner, psychoanalyst, former Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia Uni-
versity, 1966 recipient of the Humanities Prize of The New York Times: "there
is an epidemic form of homosexuality, which is more than the usual inci-
dence, which generally occurs in social crises or in declining cultures when
license and boundless permissiveness dulls the pain of ceaseless anxiety, uni-
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versal hostility and divisiveness... Supporting the claims of homosexuals and
regarding homosexuality as a normal variant of sexual activity is to deny the
social significance of homosexuality... Above all it mitigates against the fam-
ily and destroys the function of the latter as the last place in our society where
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affectivity can be cultivated... Homosexuality operates against the cohesive
elements in society in the name of fictitious freedom. It drives the opposite
sex in a similar direction. And no society can long endure when either the
child is neglected or when the sexes war upon each other."
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It is rather interesting to note that Nazi
science regarded homosexuals in the same category
as Jews, in that both were considered threats to
the state and society. The above language could
almost have been copied from Nazi "scientific"
literature on racial hygiene talking about the
threat Jews posed to society.
It's appropriate to mention that Dr.
Socarides has a homosexual son who is an activist
working for civil rights protection for
homosexuals.
Finally, it must be said that psychoanalysts
such as Dr. Socarides have been in the forefront
of trying to keep homosexuality a disease.
Psychoanalysis, under much attack by other
psychiatrists and psychologists in the 1980s and
1990s, is based on a number of elaborate theories
of human sexual development. If homosexuality were
accepted as a normal variety of human behavior,
the theories of the psychoanalysts would be
declared to be in error, and their body of
scientific work and, indeed, their very
livelihoods would be in jeopardy.
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Victim-plunder ideology is at the core of "gay" political strategy.
Homosexualists exploit the public status of homosexuals to impose their new
definition of human sexuality upon society. "Victim ideology" and "reduc-
tionist" thinking is destroying America from within. Today's new victims
see no reason to modify their own behavior. Victim psychology and philoso-
phies undermine the legitimate workings of government and the justice, health
and social systems. Like their Nazi predecessors, today's homosexualists
lack any scruples. Homosexuality is primarily a predatory addiction striving
to take the weak and unsuspecting down with it. The "gay" agenda is a
colossal fraud; a gigantic robbery of the mind. Homosexuals of the type
described in this book have no true idea of how to act in the best interests of
their country and fellow man. Their intention is to serve none but them-
selves.
The Pink Swastika documents a hidden aspect of German history. The
authors contend that homosexualism, elevated to a popular ideology and
combined with black occult forces, not only gave birth to Nazi imperialism
but also led to the Holocaust itself. The militarists in Germany were happy
with Hitler. His teachings on "total war" and of a secret Jewish conspiracy
against Germany provided a good screen for their own veiled preparations.
From its very inception, it was the goal of the Nazi Party, working as a front
for the German military industrial complex, to overthrow the Weimar Re-
public by whatever means necessary. The Pink Swastika documents how,
from its beginning, the National Socialist revolution and the Nazi Party were
animated and dominated by militaristic homosexuals, pederasts, pornogra-
phers and sado-masochists.
As Igra explains in Germany's National Vice, "the criminals who wreaked
such astounding horrors on innocent civilian populations were not acting as
soldiers drunk with the fury of battle, nor as patriotic fanatics, but as chosen
instruments of a satanic religion to the service of which they had been dedi-
cated by the systematic teaching and practice of unnatural vice" (Igra:94).
The Pink Swastika documents how the Society for Human Rights, founded
by members of the Nazi Party, became the largest homosexual rights organi-
zation in Germany and further, how this movement gave birth to the Ameri-
can homosexual rights movement. Its influence has grown. The President
of the United States now receives official homosexual delegations at the White
House who expect the President to repay them for helping him into office.
They expected him to "normalize" homosexuality in the American military.
As for the comparison made between homoeroticism and skin color, General
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Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had this to say in
a letter to Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colorado), "skin color is a benign
non-behavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps the most pro-
found of all human behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a
convenient hut invalid argument' (Salem, Oregon Statesman Journal, June
6,1992).
American civilization rests on the basic principles of Christian morality,
which have their origin in the Hebrew Scriptures. The reason why the Nazis
first attacked the Jewish people and swore to exterminate them physically
and spiritually is because the teachings of the Bible, both the Torah and the
New Testament, represent the foundations on which the whole system of
Christian ethics rests. Remove the Bible as the constellation that guides the
American Ship of State and the whole edifice of American civilization col-
lapses. For my Jewish brethren searching for a Biblical basis for the
legitimization of homosexuality, I refer to the words of Rabbis Marc Angel,
Hillel Goldberg and Pinchas Stopler and their joint article in the Winter,
1992-93 edition of Jewish Action Magazine, "there is not a single source in
all of the disciplines of Jewish sacred literature -- halachah, aggadah, phi-
losophy, muscar, mysticism -- that tolerates homosexual acts or a homosexual
orientation. Jews who sanction homosexuality must do so wholly without
reference to Jewish sacred literature, in which case their justification has no
Jewish standing; or without reference to Jewish sources, in which case they
act with ignorance or intellectual dishonesty. The idea, set forth by some of
the non-Orthodox leadership, that the Torah prohibited only coercive and
non-loving same-sex relationships, thus allowing for a contemporary, volun-
tary and loving same-sex relationship, is wholly without basis in a single
piece of Jewish sacred literature written in the last 3,000 years.
Dennis Prager, a respected Jewish radio talk show host commented,
"there were two kinds of Jews in Auschwitz, those who knew why they were
there and those who thought it was just bad luck." Today Jews have assimi-
lated ideas foreign to the Jewish perspective and many liberal, secular Ameri-
can Jews, in adopting a tolerance for everything, stand for nothing. As the
living, we owe a moral debt to that generation of Jews who were subjected to
such inhumane and sadistic torture and extermination. The underlying causes
of Nazi militarism are documented in The Pink Swastika. The Holocaust
must be remembered for what it was, a war against the Jewish people and
western civilization.
{See Comment viii-1}
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA
Kevin E. Abrams, Jerusalem, Israel
June 5, 1995
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It should be noted that Mr. Abrams was
Canadian before he moved to Jerusalem. As of 1996,
his E-mail address in Jerusalem was no longer
valid. It was said that the service which provided
his access to Internet closed his account after
complaints that he was posting inappropriate
material to various Usenet news groups.
As for "Victim-plunder ideology," perhaps
Biblical scholar Abrams means Exodus 12:35-36.
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Introduction
Scott Lively
I came to be interested in this compelling and sobering topic by a route
familiar to many in our society today -- that of the "victim." I did not seek
this status, nor did I exploit or claim it, yet for many months I and others
experienced what it was like to be on the receiving end of a full-scale, no-
holds-barred liberal establishment assault, in a state where the liberal estab-
lishment reigns supreme. The occasion of the uproar was a series of initia-
tive campaigns aimed at preventing local and state-level legislation granting
"minority status" based on homosexuality. The details of the initiatives and
about the Oregon Citizens Alliance, the grassroots organization which spon-
sored them, would fill at least one book by themselves. But the long and the
short of what led me to this book and its topic was the astonishing tone of the
rhetoric which is routinely leveled by post-60's liberals at people who pub-
licly dissent from their canon. Amidst this rhetoric, the favorite names and
metaphors were nearly all drawn from Hitler's Germany. Leaders and even
petition-carriers on our campaign were characterized as every kind of Nazi,
fascist, racist, hate-monger and Aryan supremacist. Bricks wrapped in swas-
tika-emblazoned paper were hurled through the windows of businesses who
had contributed to our campaign. Always, the Nazi rhetoric was loudest and
most extreme among the homosexual activists and their closest political al-
lies (Governor Barbara Roberts, a long time homosexualist, characterized
the ballot measure as "almost like Nazi Germany" (The Oregonian, August
26, 1992:A14)).
Some of the worst abuse came from homosexualists in the media. Dur-
ing the 1992 election cycle I was contacted by an assistant producer for the
CBS news-magazine show ~48 Hours," who wanted permission to feature
OCA in a segment about "how mainstream Americans were responding to
extremism in the gay-rights movement." Being familiar with media bias on
the issue of homosexuality, I was very suspicious and insisted on personal
assurance from the producer that this was indeed the focus of the program.
Due to the tone of rhetoric in the local media I specifically demanded and
received a promise that OCA would not be characterized as a hate group.
Only after repeated assurances over a two or three week period of telephone
negotiations did I seek and obtain permission for this project from OCA's
chairman, Lon Mabon. I then devoted nearly two weeks of my time assisting
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the "48 Hours" film crew, facilitating dozens of hours of interviews and ar-
ranging camera locations for filming campaign activities.
The program aired on February 26, 1992. In the late afternoon I re-
ceived a call from a friend in Massachusetts, where the program had just
aired three hours ahead of our West Coast television programming schedule.
"Watch out," she said, "they stabbed you in the back." Sure enough, the
program was called "48 Hours on Hate Street" and featured a rogue's gallery
of hate groups, including neo-Nazis and violent white supremacists. The
segment on OCA was sandwiched between two such groups. In the local
news program following "48 Hours," KOIN, the CBS affiliate in Portland,
juxtaposed a report about OCA and a piece which included classic Nazi file
footage and anti-Nazi polemics. Approximately two weeks later another
television station in Eugene, KEZI-TV, included Nazi file footage in a news
story about OCA (they later apologized). Newspapers across the state fre-
quently editorialized against OCA, using the terms "Nazi," "KKK," "bigot,"
and "hate" liberally.
I had known for a long time that it is axiomatic that when name-calling
(as opposed to reasonable debate) happens, the names one calls others usu-
ally reflect the things one dislikes about oneself. I think it occurred to me
that there was something awfully overstated about the Nazi-labeling cam-
paign, even before I received a set of carefully-documented notes on promi-
nent homosexuals in the Nazi Party, sent by a person who had followed the
firestorm of rhetoric brought on by our campaign.
In the years since I began augmenting and refining this first set of data,
the nation has seen the trivialization of such extreme rhetoric. It is common-
place nowadays to hear someone being called, directly or by inference, a
"Nazi." Some people have attributed this to the impoverishment of our na-
tional discourse, the depletion of our language and powers of intellect, and I
would agree. We are certainly losing our literacy, and much of our dignity
along with it. Yet there remains the old and valid notion that those who
repeatedly, loudly and unreasonably call others a name are often, consciously
or not, describing themselves.
Though this book is limited to the examination of connections between
the Nazi movement and the homosexual and occultist movements, I think
that a larger and more chilling theme can be read in its pages. Can it be that
the fascination with calling people Nazis is, for the post-60's liberals and
others in our society, an outgrowth of a deeper fascination with what the
Nazis got away with in their own state? What are the attitudes that underlie
the phenomena of the "nanny state," "political correctness," the cynical po-
litical promotion of racial and class strife, "dumbing down" the public, the
attenuation of parental rights, sterilizing the public environment of Judeo-
Christian religious references, and the increasing homogeneity of opinion
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and of news "slant" in the press? In a way, I think that American homo-
sexual activists present an almost refreshingly honest View into the nature of
these attitudes, compared to the sanctimonious presentations we hear daily
from the press and certain special interest groups and political leaders.
Let us look for a moment at one of the more bald-faced revelations of the
homosexualist's view of, and goals for, American society. In a point-by-
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point public relations strategy called "The Overhauling of Straight America,"
(Guide Magazine, November, 1987) homosexuals Marshall Kirk and Erastes
Pill explain their modern makeover of Hitler's "Big Lie." This remarkable
piece is a control freak's fantasy, a veritable binge of manipulative, coercive
and deceptive words and tactics. It begins, "[t]he first order of business is
desensitization of the American public concerning gays... To desensitize the
public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen
emotion. Ideally, we would have straights register differences in sexual pref-
erence the way they register different tastes for ice cream..." (Kirk and Pill:7).
This behavior-modification mentality, combined with isolation of "straights"
and others as groups or classes who assume the status of de-humanized tar-
gets of one sort or another, continues:
the masses [emphasis ours] should not he shocked and re-
pelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavior
itself...the imagery of sex should he downplayed...(ibid.:8)
...open up a gateway into the private world of straights
through which a Trojan horse might be passed (ibid.:8)
...gays must be cast as victims in need of protection so that
straights will be inclined by reflex to assume the role of
protector (ibid.: 8)
...make use of symbols which reduce the mainstream's sense
of threat, which lower its guard...(ibid.:8)
...replace the mainstream's self-righteous pride about its
homophobia with shame and guilt (ibid.:10).
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It would be interesting to have a librarian
try to locate this Guide Magazine-- not to say
the publication didn't exist, but its status is
certainly questionable.
The main objection to its use, however, is
that some insignificant writing by unknown authors
in a publication of questionable status is claimed
by the Pink Swastika authors to represent an
"agenda" of a national movement. It is as if one
were to take the journal of the Church of the
White Aryan Nation and claim that it represented
the "agenda" of the conservative religious
movement. Mr. Lively would certainly complain
about that, yet he does the same thing to his
opponents.
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Not so many years ago, all of these statements would have been unbe-
lievably offensive to most Americans, even if they contained no reference to
homosexuality, precisely because they all advocate coercive tampering with
people's most private domain, their thoughts, opinions and beliefs (Kirk and
Pill call it "transforming the social values of straight America" -- ibid.:14).
Such attempts were thought to be the province of diabolical masterminds in
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sci-fi novels, or of Maoists or the dictators of banana republics. But we have
arrived at a time in America in which Kirk and Pill simply add their voices
(and the tone of their voices) to the many advocating the forcible or manipu-
lative control of people's ideas (for example, "speech codes" on college cam-
puses and in newspaper classified advertising policy). The recent political
scene has given us glimpses of how some politicians view the public's right
to think for itself, most notably, Senator Jay Rockefeller's announcement
that he intended to give people "[Clinton's] health care [plan] whether they
want it or not" (quoted in The Limbaugh Letter, May, 1995:9).
The more of Nazi thinking I have researched, the more I have been
reminded that our nation represents the first and greatest successful experi-
ment in the opposite direction. At our founding we were the only nation,
among many autocratically-governed states, which truly offered and guaran-
teed freedom of thought and expression. Our founding fathers attempted to
write our inestimably precious freedoms in stone because they foresaw (in-
deed, it was going on even then) that there would be an incessant drift back
to the power-in-the-bands-of-a-few school of thought. How far have we drifted
today, and what does this mean for the behavioral fringe groups of our soci-
ety (just as the Nazis were a behavioral fringe group of theirs), who feel
compelled to re-shape American hearts and minds to resemble their own?
Let us return to Kirk and Pill to look at the mechanics of their strategy
for "transforming" the society into what they feel would be a more acceptable
form. Here are some of their suggestions:
Talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as
possible... almost any behavior begins to look normal if you
are exposed to enough of it...(Kirk and Pill:7)
Constant talk builds the impression that public opinion is
at least divided on the subject (ibid.:8)
the campaign should paint gays as superior pillars of
society. Yes, yes, we know -- this trick is so old it creaks
(ibid. :9)
...it will be time to get tough with remaining opponents.
To be blunt, they must be vilified (ibid.: 10))
...we intend to make the anti-gays look so nasty that aver-
age Americans will want to dissociate themselves from such
types (ibid.: 10)
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Each sign will tap patriotic sentiment, each message will
drill a seemingly agreeable proposition into mainstream
heads (ibid.:ll)
The public should be shown images of ranting homophobes
whose secondary traits and beliefs disgust middle
America... the Ku Klux Klan demanding that gays be burned
alive or castrated; bigoted southern {sic} ministers drool-
ing with hysterical hatred to a degree that looks both comi-
cal and deranged; menacing punks, thugs and
convicts... Nazi concentration camps...(ibid:10)
These images should be combined with those of their gay
victims by a method propagandists [emphasis ours] call
the "bracket technique." For example, for a few seconds an
unctuous beady-eyed Southern preacher is seen, pounding
the pulpit in rage about "those sick, abominable creatures."
While his tirade continues over the soundtrack, the picture
switches to pathetic photos of badly beaten persons, or to
photos of gays who look decent, harmless, and likable; and
then we cut back to the poisonous face of the preacher, and
so forth... The effect is devastating (ibid.: 13-14).
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The dubious nature of this reference was
noted above. Quoting so extensively from such
unrepresentative statements without having any
corroborating statements from responsible
spokesmen simply emphasizes how weak the case of
the authors of The Pink Swastika is.
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Without belaboring the point. these soi-disant propagandistic tactics,
and even the verbiage in which they are couched, represent a twisted ap-
proach to the winning of American public opinion. Again, I was struck by
the similarity (in deceptive tactics and puppeteer-like attitude) to the creators
of the Nazi propaganda machine. Not only is there the classic Big Lie tech-
nique (say it "loudly and as often as possible"), but the homosexualists have
elevated the old Nazi technique of vilification, used on the Jews by such
adepts as pornographer Julius Streicher. to an art form And the familiar
Hitlerian emotional component of hatred is certainly there, as Kirk and Pill
salivate over the imagined discomfiture of their "most fervid enemies" (ap-
parently, pastors who have the misfortune to live in the South!):
The shoe fits, and we should make them try it on for size,
with all of America watching (ibid. :10).
Two of the first and major commitments of the Nazis in their rise to
power were the effective control of the information sources in Germany, and
the careful building of a propaganda machine. This was the key to their
power, and except for a strong military force, it is the most important en-
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hancement to any autocratic power. Over the last two decades we have wit-
nessed an appalling willingness among the American news and entertain-
ment media to align themselves with one element of political thought, to
allow themselves to be channels for the dissemination of one side of an issue
over another. As new and contradictory voices (talk radio) have appeared on
the media scene. they have actually been opposed by the existing media com-
mentators. And in much of. the entertainment media's program fare we find
a not-so-subtle enactment of Kirk's and Pill's strategy (albeit on a number of
issues, not just homosexuality). Indeed, Kirk and Pill assert that "gay Holly-
wood has provided our best covert weapon in the battle to desensitize the
mainstream" (Kirk and Pill:8).
These are some of the issues to be broached in a study of the relationship
of homosexuals and their political movements to the Nazi Party. The larger
context of the study must be our own country, and the numerous groups who
are now struggling to capture its soul and "transform" its society. How are
we similar, and dissimilar, to the Germans of the 1920's and 30's? What
lessons should we learn?
As a final note, the other inspiration of this book has been the recent
claim of homosexualists that homosexuals were major victims of the Holo-
caust (this seems to be part (if the "victim" strategy in Kirk's and Pill's de-
sign). The play Bent has been the springboard for a campaign, complete
with homosexual add-ons to an Anne Frank exhibit which toured the U.S., to
get the public to accept the idea that homosexuals were the most downtrod-
den and persecuted group in Nazi Germany. In this play, a homosexual
prisoner "trades up" his pink badge for a yellow Jewish star to improve his
status in the camp (S. Katz:145). This turn of events in the homosexualist
propaganda campaign has been a sore affront to traditionalist Jews like my
friend and co-author Kevin Abrams, who desires to protect the truth of his-
tory from the "Holocaust revisionists." It is to that truth, a signpost on the
path of every free society, that we have dedicated this book.
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Acknowledgments
The process of creating a book involves directly or indirectly, a great
number of people who lend their inspiration. It is with deep respect that we
express our gratitude to the many great historians, men like Konrad Heiden,
who wrote A History of National Socialism and Der Fuehrer; William Shirer
whose book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, became one of the most
respected and classic texts on Nazi history; and, of course, Samuel Igra, whose
obscure but important 1945 work, Germany's National Vice reveals a hid-
den side of history seldom seen or acknowledged. To these who were there
and who honestly reported what they saw and experienced, we are indebted.
They are our guides to the future.
We would especially like to thank Dr. Charles Socarides, President of
NARTH, The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexu-
ality, for his support and encouragement. Dr. Socarides is a Clinical Profes-
sor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
We would also like to express our gratitude to Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, Sec-
retary and Editor of the NARTH Bulletin and Founder and Clinical Director
of the Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic in Southern California. Dr.
Nicolosi has published two insightful works on reparative therapy and ho-
mosexuality which offer hope and the option of positive change for the ho-
mosexual.
Other individuals with whom one or both of us have had the honor of
working are Mr. Peter LaBarbera, editor and publisher of the Lambda Report
on Homosexuality, a Washington D.C.-based publication that monitors the
homosexual agenda in American politics and culture; Sam and Mona Kaplan,
editors and publishers of The Vancouver (Canada) Jewish Western Bulletin;
Steve Lequire and Terry O'Neil of The British Columbia Report Magazine;
Rosebianca Starr, Vancouver, British Columbia; Lon Mabon, Chairman of
Oregon Citizens Alliance and Pat Smith of the OCA Research Department;
Trevor Lautens, columnist for the Vancouver Sun, Paul Schratz, editor, The
Province Newspaper, Vancouver; David, Avraham and Israel Feld, Maccabi
Mossad, Israel; David Bedien, Director of Beit Agron Press Center, Jerusa-
lem; Len Butcher, editor of the Canadian B'nai B'rith Covenant; Mrs. Irene
Klass, Women's Editor, The Jewish Press, Brooklyn New York; Rabbi Micha
and Bracha Peled, Moshav Netiv HaShaiara; Michael Elkins of the Jerusa-
lem Report; Professor William Woodruff, Campbell University, North Caro-
lina; David Bar Illan, editor of the Jerusalem Post; Kevin Tebedo, Executive
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Director of Colorado for Family Values; Pastor Mary Rogers , Reverend Bernice
Gerard of Sunday Line Radio and Television Ministries, Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada; Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director for the Interna-
tional Christian Embassy Jerusalem; David Luchins, Senior Assistant to U.S.
Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, Jerusalem; Rabbi Avraham Ravitz, Member of
Knesset; Rabbi Schlomo Beneziri, Member of Knesset; Phil Chernovsky, Is-
rael Centre; Rena Cohen, Sefat, Israel; Toby Klein Greenwald, columnist for
Washington Jewish Week; Paul deParrie and Andrew Burnett of Life Advo-
cate magazine; Paul Hoerauf of Shelton-Turnbull Printers; Herman Bauer;
and Pastor Larry Dill, Sheridan Assembly of God Church.
Special thanks to Bill and Irene Bennett (and Anne L.) For their willing-
ness to lend their considerable editorial talents to task {sic} of cleaning up the
manuscript, to D.E. and to Alan Abe for digging out countless familiar and
obscure sources that document the truth of Nazi history, to Pat Gunnip for his
generosity in underwriting research and other costs, and to Carol P. at OCA's
research department who got us started on this endeavor by introducing us to
each other.
I (Kevin) wish to acknowledge my teachers, Rabbis Mendle Altien, Lippa
Dubrawsky, David Bassos, Mordecai Feuerstein, Avraham Feiglestock,
Yitchak Wineberg -- to you I owe the most.
Both of us extend a special thank you to our wives, Sharon Abrams and
Anne Lively, who have struggled with us through this long and difficult
process, offering their wholehearted support and many insightful sugges-
tions.
This book is for our children: Miriam, Aaron and Odette Abrams and
Noah and Samuel Lively.
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horde, a large grouping of Swastika standards in
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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, from Banquet (In Konrad Heiden's Der Fuehrer, 1944:741)
It remains characteristic of the Germans, that they, outwardly the most
brutally masculine of all European peoples, are the most homosexual na-
tion on earth.
H.R. Knickerbocker, Is Tomorrow Hitler's?, 1941:34
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Heiden's work is tinged with disparaging
attitudes toward homosexuality, which perhaps
explains his false translation of Plato. Plato's
point dealt with lovers, and the idea was that
lovers fighting together would be very brave, as
they wouldn't want to be shamed in front of their
partners: "Then if any device could be found how a
state or an army could be made up only of lovers
and beloved, they could not possible find a better
way of living, since they would abstain from all
ugly things and be ambitious in beautiful things
towards each other, and in battle side by side,
such troops although few would conquer pretty well
all the world. For the lover would be less willing
to be seen by his beloved than by all the rest of
the world, leaving the ranks or throwing away his
arms, and he would choose to die many times rather
than that; yes, and as to deserting the beloved,
or not helping in danger, no one is so base that
Love himself would not inspire him to valour, and
make him equal to the born hero." -- The Dialogues
of Plato, Translated by W.H.D. Rouse, ed. Eric H.
Warmington & Philip G. Rouse, 1956 by Mentor
Books, New American Library.
The Knickerbocker quote actually appears on
page 34 of the Reynal & Hitchcock 1941 printing of
his book.
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