Hitler had numerous homoerotic friendships during the 1920s, and his later life can only be understood by taking into account his gay preferences, according to a book by a German historian being launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week. In “Hitler’s Secret — The Double Life of a Dictator,” Lothar Machtan hopes to shed new light on old speculation that the Nazi leader was secretly gay.
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