Episode 1: Ernst Rohm

Published: March 19, 2019, 8 a.m.

A discussion of the life and ideology of Ernst R\xf6hm, the world's first openly gay politician: and a Nazi.\xa0----more----\nSources and further reading:\nEleanor Hancock: "Only the Real, the True, the Masculine Held Its Value: Ernst R\xf6hm, Masculinity, and Male Homosexuality." Journal of the History of Sexuality\xa0Vol. 8, No. 4 (Apr., 1998), pp. 616-641.\nLaurie Marhoeffer: "Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History." Notches Blog, June 19, 2018. http://notchesblog.com/2018/06/19/queer-fascism-and-the-end-of-gay-history/\nLaurie Marhoeffer:\xa0Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis.\xa0University of Toronto Press, 2015.\nBoaz Neumann: "The Phenomenology of the German People's Body (Volksk\xf6rper) and the Extermination of the Jewish Body." New German Critique\xa0No. 106 (Winter, 2009), pp. 149-181.\nSpartacus Educational: Ernst R\xf6hm. https://spartacus-educational.com/GERroehm.html/