The Pink Swastika

The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party

Cover of the first edition
Author	Scott Lively Kevin Abrams
Language	English
Subject	Nazi Germany
Published	1995
Media type	Print (paperback)
ISBN	978-0-9647609-0-5
LC Class	DD256.5 .L55

The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party is a book first published in 1995 by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, and currently in its 5th edition. The book argues that homosexuality was rife in the Nazi Party and that a homosexual ideology based on that of ancient Sparta was at the roots of Nazism and essential to its militaristic "superman" ethos. The book traces the origins of Nazism in 19th-century and early 20th-century philosophy. It is full of historical details, is well-documented and based on hundreds of first-hand sources,

Summary

According to the authors, homosexuality found in the Nazi Party contributed to the extreme militarism of Nazi Germany. The title of the book, as well as the book itself, is a reference to The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals, a book in which Richard Plant details homophobia in the Nazi Party and the homosexual victims of Nazism. Lively and Abrams also take up the subject of Nazism in America and discuss the Boy Scouts. They state that many leaders in the German Nazi regime, including Adolf Hitler himself, were homosexual and says that eight of the top ten serial killers in the US were homosexuals. They claim that persecution of homosexuals was only directed towards feminine homosexuals. One significant source for The Pink Swastika was Samuel Igra's Germany's National Vice, which Lively refers to as "the 1945 version of The Pink Swastika."

Critical Reception

The book was widely praised by scholars and critics, both Jewish and otherwise.

"The Pink Swastika is a thoroughly researched, eminently readable demolition of the "gay myth" that that Nazis were anti-homosexual...The deep roots of homosexuality in the Nazi party are brilliantly exposed." Dr Howard L Hurwitz Ph.D.

“As a Jewish scholar who lost hundreds of her family in the Holocaust, I welcome The Pink Swastika as courageous and timely . . . Lively and Abrams reveal the reigning “gay history” as revisionist and expose the supermale German homosexuals for what they were - Nazi brutes, not Nazi victims.” Dr. Judith Reisman, Institute for Media Education.

“The Pink Swastika is a tremendously valuable book, replete with impressive documentation presented in a compelling fashion.” William Grigg, The New American

“...exposes numerous lies, and tears away many myths. Essential reading, it is a formidable boulder cast into the path of the onrushing homosexual express...” Stan Goodenough, Middle East Intelligence Digest.

“The Pink Swastika is a powerful exposure of pre-World War II Germany and its quest for reviving and imitating a Hellenistic-paganistic idea of homo-eroticism and militarism.” Dr. Mordechai Nisan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

“Lively and Abrams call attention to what Hitlerism really stood for, abortion, euthanasia, hatred of Jews, and, very emphatically, homosexuality. This many of us knew in the 1930’s; it was common knowledge, but now it is denied...” R. J. Rushdoony, The Chalcedon Report.

“...a treasury of knowledge for anyone who wants to know what really happened during the Jewish Holocaust...” Norman Saville, News of All Israel.

“...Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams have done America a great service...” Col. Ronald Ray, Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense“A landmark book for those who have trouble understanding Hitler, the Holocaust...Previous books and movies, however high their quality, have left me mystified as to how the Nazi leaders could have done the things they did. This short book gets closer to the truth than anything I know of.” John Hully, Former Senior Economist, the World Bank.

“...unusually informative and thought provoking...” Langdon Mustell, Attorney.

“A well researched book. The central theme that the Nazi movement was riddled with homosexuals is certainly true.” Hilmar von Campe, German author and historian, graduate of University of Hamburg. See www.voncampe.com/books/books.shtm

“This is one for your personal library. No doubt you will, at some time, be confronted with the myth of the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis. Be ready with the facts.” Paul De Parrie, Life Advocate.

“Excellent book! This book gives ample evidence that the sexual perversion of homosexuality easily lends itself to authoritarian impulses....The underlying theme is that when a society accepts a moral relativistic philosophy (leading to acceptance of homosexuality) it could very well lead to the eventual destruction of...constitutional rights..” Steve Baldwin, Executive Director, Council for National Policy.

Inevitable Attack by LGBT journalists

Jonathan Zimmerman, who is a sociologist, not a historian at New York University, wrote that the claim that homosexuals helped bring Nazism to Germany "is a flat-out lie" but this is curious in view of the immense amount of evidence provided by the book. Such a furious outburst is not academic reviewing and his other claims lack academic basis as well. Zimmerman repeats the myth that "Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis arrested roughly 100,000 men as homosexuals," taking these figures not from documentary research but merely from an inaccurate LGBT website. The claim has been refuted by German historian Grau and Schoppman. He claims, "To win their release from the camps, some gays were forced to undergo castration," but can bring no examples. Halso says "Others were mutilated or murdered in so-called medical experiments by Nazi doctors, who insisted that homosexuality was a disease that could be 'cured'." Actually, before the Nazis came along, doctors such as Magnus Hirshfeld were already carrying out unethical experiments on homosexuals and transgenders, some of whom died. Zimmerman says "Hitler authorized an edict in 1941 prescribing the death penalty [...] for SS and police members found guilty of gay activity," but he does not mention that such edicts were common in the armies of every other country, nor does he raise the question of why it was necessary to pass it unless there was a prevalence of such behavior that had been drawn to the leaders' attention.

Bryan Fischer

Bryan Fischer, the former Director of Issues Analysis for the American Family Association was fired after LGBT activists complained about his views on the Holocaust, which are taken from The Pink Swastika. Such a bullying campaign does not refute Fischer's views, but on the contrary, demonstrates that homosexuals still use fascist tactics today in the 21st century.

In 2008, Fischer published an essay called "The Truth About Homosexuality and the Nazi Party" in which he said that "the Nazi Party began in a gay bar in Munich," [which is factually correct] that the Night of the Long Knives was "largely implemented by homosexuals" and that homosexuals were recruited into Hitler's brown shirts because they were "a proud and arrogant lot" who could "kill and slaughter for the hell of it" and stated "unless a Storm Troop officer were homosexual, he had no chance of advancement".

In 2010, Fischer repeated the claim that Hitler was a homosexual on American Family Talk radio, and stated that "Hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious enough to carry out his orders, but that homosexual soldiers basically had no limits and the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on whomever Hitler sent them after. So he surrounded himself, virtually all of the Stormtroopers, the Brownshirts, were male homosexuals". In 2013 he repeated on American Family Talk that Hitler started the Nazi party "in a gay bar in Munich" and that "[Adolf Hitler] couldn't get straights to be vicious enough in being his enforcers."

On January 28, 2015, Tim Wildmon, President of the America Family Association told MSNBC that they were firing Fischer from his position as director of issue analysis.

Many Jewish people strongly supported what Fischer had said, and The Pink Swastika was co-authored by Keven E. Abrams, who is Jewish.

See also

• Abiding Truth Ministries
• Ernst Röhm, a gay Nazi executed in 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives
• Pink triangle
• Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• Paragraph 175
• Sexuality of Adolf Hitler

External links

• The Strange, Strange Story of Gay Fascists. Johann Hari. Huffington Post (October 21, 2008)
• The Pink Swastika 5th (Internet) edition
• The Pink Swastika 4th edition
• The Pink Swastika 3rd edition
• The Annotated Pink Swastika, a fact check of the authors' sources, and corrects the more serious factual errors contained in the book.