An unanswered question
Historians have speculated about Hitler’s sexuality for years, but where’s the evidence?
In the image Hitler created for himself he was a man married to the Fatherland. In his mind he had been put on this Earth to bring freedom to the German people, and there was no time for him to be having fun and frolicking around with women.
Hitler had his fair share of women in his life – Geli and Eva were the most famous, but there were others, too. However, as far as the bedroom was concerned, historians have differing opinions about what went on. There are some who put forward the argument that the dictator was actually asexual – that is, he didn’t participate in sex. But it doesn’t take much to disprove this theory; Geli was so disgusted by the sex acts she was made to perform that it put distance between her and her half-uncle, while Eva’s biographer claims they had a very active sex life.
This isn’t the only school of thought, though. There are a number of historians past and present who believe that the Fuhrer was homosexual, or at least repressing strong homosexual tendencies. Lothar Machtan, a German historian and writer, believes so. One partner he suggests is August Kubizek, who had lived with Hitler in Vienna in 1908, but this isn’t mentioned at all in Kubizek’s memoirs. Instead he talks about how they both fell for the same girl, Stefanie Rabatsch. Machtan doesn’t stop there – he also claims that Hitler had an affair with a fellow soldier during World War I, although no evidence has been found. Perhaps we’ll never know the whole truth – or perhaps he was simply a heterosexual man, whatever his individual sexual proclivities may have been.