WI: Hitler was really homosexual

What if Hitler was actually homosexual? Since Hitler's reason to join the DAP was particular his antisemitism and anticommunism, history wouldn't have changed much. Still, Ernst Röhm might have been killed, because Hitler feared a coup by the SA. But would Hitler still have included homosexuals into his list of undesirable elements? Or might closeted gays have even be spared? And what if Hitler was outed after World War II? What impact would it have taken on the gay rights movement? Would it have gone to the point, that gays are actually compared to Nazis?
 
Hitler wouldn't have gone any easier on homosexuals. If anything, he would've persecuted them more harshly, in an example of internalized homophobia. He would have killed more gays to deflect suspicion that he was one.

As for outing him after the war, it makes sense that this would harm the gay rights movement. I've heard people condemn religion on the basis that Stalin was a priest, so there will still be people who condemn homosexuality on the basis of Hitler's personal life. The right might use pictures of Hitler as ammunition against "militant homosexuality."

EDIT: If Hitler was born gay, he may well have been kicked out of the German Army for homosexual affairs and then been unable to rise in the ranks, and finally ended up a citizen of the Ernst Rohm Reich.
 
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But would Hitler still have included homosexuals into his list of undesirable elements?
Absolutely. One look at the "Aryan ideal" compared to Hitler himself shows that he was big on the self-hatred -- this is just another level.

If Hitler was outed after the war, I doubt anybody would really believe it anyway. It'd become an urban legend like the one-testicle thing.
 
Are you the only person on the planet NOT to have seen the photos? ;)

Apparently I'm the second person on the planet not to have seen the photos, because I have no idea what photos you are referring to.
I have heard many things about Hitler's sex life; that he was impotent, that he fathered a child in France in 1918, [ i believe his name was Loret, or some such], that he had an affair with his niece, but never that he was gay.
Now, I do believe that J Edgar Hoover was a closet homosexual [Gay Edgar Hoover] for whatever that is worth.
 

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Given how much of the Nazi ideology was focused on propagating the "master race" through fathering children, homosexuality would be seen as an ideological offense on those grounds alone.
 
There's a book," Adolf Hitler: The Final Analysis", by Andrew Norman, which claims Hitler was homosexual. It made a bit of a sensation when it came out a few years ago. A lot of historians disagree w/this, as far as I understand.

Its fairly certain that Ernst Roehm, head of the SA, was homosexual.Hitler knew this and didn't care, until Roehm's movement became dangerous for him.
 
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