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Adam Aronson

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Dec 6, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/6/96
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I know this is not terribly pertinent from a strategist's point of view
but I have heard from a friend that Hermann Goering was a known
homosexual. Has this been documented by a reliable source?

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Thank you,

Adam Aronson


mcdo...@durham.net

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Dec 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/8/96
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On 6 Dec 1996 17:41:18 GMT, aro...@webspan.net (Adam Aronson) wrote:

>...... I have heard from a friend that Hermann Goering was a known


>homosexual. Has this been documented by a reliable source?

I don't have a proper answer for you.

In his book "Blood, Tears & Folly", Len Deighton speculates that
Goering might have been a transvestite. He cites the makeup that
Goering used to wear in public, and his taste in uniforms and
traditional hunter's customes.

I am aware, thought, that a transvestite is not the same thing as a
homosexual, and that speculation is not the same thing as
documentation from a reliable source!

Goering was also married twice, and had at least one daughter. If
Goering was homosexual, in all likelihood he was not exclusively so.

If Goering was either a transvestite or a homosexual, he would have
been well advised to keep it private. Public knowledge would not have
helped his career.


Emmanuel.Gustin

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Dec 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/8/96
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Adam Aronson (aro...@webspan.net) wrote:

: I know this is not terribly pertinent from a strategist's point of view
: but I have heard from a friend that Hermann Goering was a known


: homosexual. Has this been documented by a reliable source?

Goering was happily married, twice. There are no indications that he was
homosexual. However, his extravagant uniforms, his use of make-up and his
interest in jewellery made the suspicion credible.

So it seems that when Goering managed to get access to his own Gestapo
file, it claimed that he had homosexual tendencies. It is said that he was
quite angry. Despite Ernst Rohm's role in the rise to power of the nazi
party, it was hostile to homosexuals (to the extent of ordering their
extermination), and Goering probably understood that these rumours could
damage his influence.

Emmanuel Gustin

C. L. Waltemath

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Dec 14, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/14/96
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In article <58c9bd$r...@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, DiL...@pobox.com (Dirk
Lorek) wrote:

> aro...@webspan.net (Adam Aronson) wrote:
>
> >I know this is not terribly pertinent from a strategist's point of view
> >but I have heard from a friend that Hermann Goering was a known
> >homosexual. Has this been documented by a reliable source?
>

> I don't think that was true. Goering was very found of his first wife,
> Karin. But he was also found of silly uniforms, maybe this started the
> rumor. The only homosexual higher Nazi leaders I know of were Ernst
> Roehm and Rudolf Hess.

No doubt about Roehm, but what is the evidence for Hess?

As far As Goering, he has been described as giving parties at Karinhall
dressed in a roman Toga with rouge on his cheeks and a lot of jewelry, but
never as a cross dresser and I have never before seen the accusation of
homosexual. Where did this come from?
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Portland, Oregon


Dirk Lorek

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Dec 16, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/16/96
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c...@teleport.com (C. L. Waltemath) wrote:

>No doubt about Roehm, but what is the evidence for Hess?

Hess was a known homosexual in the higher Nazi circles, he was
nicknamed 'Rudolphine' (or something similar feminine), and it was
doubted that Hess' son was really his. Sadly enough, I just can't
remember where I read it :-(

Dirk

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John223362

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Dec 16, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/16/96
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No this is unlikely as according to info on him from WWI he was fond on
several woman. Also the Nazi were anti homosexual. They sent them all
the concentration camps and they were forced to wear Pink Triangles
(historical fact) When they arrived at camps any one with said triangle
went right to the "showers"


Paco Jones

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Dec 18, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/18/96
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DiL...@pobox.com (Dirk Lorek) wrote:

>
>c...@teleport.com (C. L. Waltemath) wrote:
>
>>No doubt about Roehm, but what is the evidence for Hess?
>
>Hess was a known homosexual in the higher Nazi circles, he was

Hess was named "das Weibchen"(the Little Woman) hy Hitler's gang, just
as Goering was named "das Dicke"(the fat one), and Goebbels was
"clubfoot".
Nice bunch of friendly, supporting guys...


Dirk Lorek

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Dec 20, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/20/96
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flam...@hotmail.com (Paco Jones) wrote:

>Hess was named "das Weibchen"(the Little Woman) hy Hitler's gang, just
>as Goering was named "das Dicke"(the fat one), and Goebbels was
>"clubfoot".
>Nice bunch of friendly, supporting guys...

Goebbels was also nicknamed 'Tadpole' by the German public:
'consisting of only a mouth and a tail' (the latter is in German a
synonym for the male reproduction organ; Goebbels was known for his
promiscuity).

Dirk
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