The Pink Swastika

The Pink Swastika is a book by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams. The authors argue that alleged 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 a book by Richard Plant called The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals, a book detailing homophobia in the Nazi Party and the gay victims of the Holocaust. Lively and Abrams also take up the subject of Nazism in America and discuss the Boy Scouts. The links between certain Muslims and Nazi Germany are also investigated. The book claims that many leaders in the German Nazi regime, including Adolf Hitler himself, were homosexual and claims eight of the top ten serial killers in the US were homosexuals.[1][2]

Author's revision: The Pink Swastika is a book by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams. The authors argue that the founding and development of the Nazi Party was heavily influenced by hyper-masculine male homosexuals who sought to recreate the modern fascist state on the model of the Spartan militaristic society. The book was first published in 1995 to counter efforts by the American homosexual movement to equate the pesecution of some homosexuals under the Nazis to the Holocaust of the Jews. That effort was supported in a book by Richard Plant called The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals, a book detailing so-called homophobia in the Nazi Party and the gay victims of the Holocaust. Lively and Abrams argue that that a relatively few homosexuals were interned in concentration camps, primarily effiminate-oriented male homosexuals who were political enemies of the Nazi party aligned with the Communist Party.

Erik N. Jensen, whose objectivity may be compromised due to his sexual orientation, regards the authors' linkage of homosexuality and Nazism as the recurrence of a "pernicious myth", originating in 1930s attacks on Nazism by Socialists and Communists and "long since dispelled" by "serious scholarship".[3] Jensen sees the book as coming about in "the aftermath of an Oregon measure to repeal gay rights".[3] Dorthe Seifert cites it as a response to increasing awareness of Nazi persecution of homosexuals.[4] Christine L. Mueller argues that the historical record does not support Abrams' assertions.[5]

The book has also been criticized by the Southern Poverty Law Center, another ideological adversary, as untrue.[6] However, The Pink Swastika overlays a web of data drawn from the works of numerous writers and historians within the genre of "gay history" over a foundation of documentation from mainstream sources to reveal an aspect of Nazi history not otherwise visible. As such, its claims fall outside the expertise of most present-day academics who are not themselves members of the gay community. The authors are in the process of publishing a 5th edition of The Pink Swastika in the form of a website at www.thepinkswastika.com in order to place the book's documentation within easier reach.

See also

• Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• National Socialist League (United States), aka "the Gay Nazi Party"
• Ernst Röhm
• Sexuality of Adolf Hitler
• Syphilis at Adolf Hitler's health
• Homophobia
• Homosexual agenda
• Godwin's Law

External links

• The Pink Swastika 3rd edition
• The Pink Swastika 4th and final edition
• The Annotated Pink Swastika which is a fact check of the authors' sources, and corrects the more serious factual errors contained in the book.