1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,667 (ominous music) 2 00:00:07,023 --> 00:00:07,856 - [Nazis] Sieg heil, sieg heil, sieg heil, 3 00:00:07,856 --> 00:00:10,523 sieg heil, sieg heil, sieg heil. 4 00:00:16,890 --> 00:00:20,310 - [Narrator] It's not hard to believe that Adolf Hitler, 5 00:00:20,310 --> 00:00:25,310 the world's most hated man, also had a depraved sex life. 6 00:00:25,860 --> 00:00:28,650 - The sadomasochistic element was really 7 00:00:28,650 --> 00:00:33,000 such a prominent feature of his presentation. 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,520 - [Narrator] But even during his lifetime, 9 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,730 controversy raged about what exactly 10 00:00:38,730 --> 00:00:41,583 Hitler was doing behind closed doors. 11 00:00:42,540 --> 00:00:46,560 - Obviously it was never shown that he was using drugs. 12 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,110 - [Narrator] Some said he was a chronic masturbator 13 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,103 or that he got his sexual kicks from voyeurism. 14 00:00:54,300 --> 00:00:57,300 Many believed he was impotent. 15 00:00:57,300 --> 00:01:00,090 Others thought he was homosexual. 16 00:01:00,090 --> 00:01:05,090 - Sex cruises through all Hitler's dysfunctional behavior. 17 00:01:06,510 --> 00:01:10,140 - [Narrator] What is known is that Adolf Hitler 18 00:01:10,140 --> 00:01:14,220 spun a tangled web of lies to hide the truth 19 00:01:14,220 --> 00:01:16,560 about his twisted sex life. 20 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,931 - It was semi incestuous. It was his half sister's daughter. 21 00:01:20,931 --> 00:01:22,440 (crowd cheering) 22 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,800 - [Narrator] Now extensive archival research 23 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,620 can reveal the squalid secrets 24 00:01:28,620 --> 00:01:31,620 he lied and killed to protect. 25 00:01:31,620 --> 00:01:34,230 - Hitler was a person of extremes. 26 00:01:34,230 --> 00:01:38,280 So he either loved totally or he hated totally. 27 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,623 To him, everything in the end was death. 28 00:01:48,163 --> 00:01:53,163 - [Nazis] Sieg heil, sieg heil, sieg heil, sieg heil. 29 00:01:53,370 --> 00:01:57,630 - [Narrator] For most people, sex means pleasure, 30 00:01:57,630 --> 00:02:02,630 but for Adolf Hitler, it was dirty and debased. 31 00:02:02,670 --> 00:02:07,290 He once said that having sex with a woman was as risky 32 00:02:07,290 --> 00:02:10,383 as fighting in the trenches of the Western front. 33 00:02:12,660 --> 00:02:17,100 That attitude was reflected in his sexual behavior 34 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:21,483 that left a trail of dead bodies and shattered spirits. 35 00:02:24,270 --> 00:02:26,220 The women who became ensnared 36 00:02:26,220 --> 00:02:29,100 in Adolf Hitler's twisted world 37 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:32,220 were crushed by the shame and humiliation 38 00:02:32,220 --> 00:02:33,963 of what he demanded of them. 39 00:02:35,580 --> 00:02:39,870 A photo journalist who covered Hitler in the 1920s recalled 40 00:02:39,870 --> 00:02:43,260 that everybody in Munich knew that Hitler 41 00:02:43,260 --> 00:02:47,370 was some kind of sexual pervert, 42 00:02:47,370 --> 00:02:50,760 but how true were the allegations? 43 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,610 Many historians refute claims 44 00:02:53,610 --> 00:02:55,683 that Hitler was a sexual deviant. 45 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,500 They dismiss his accusers as disgruntled individuals 46 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:05,043 who had good reason to harbor grudges against the Fuhrer. 47 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,970 Some of those who sped the stories 48 00:03:08,970 --> 00:03:11,520 were Hitler's sworn enemies, 49 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:16,263 like former Nazi comrade turned in former Otto Strasser. 50 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:21,333 And they would have said anything to smear his reputation. 51 00:03:24,780 --> 00:03:28,260 Were they just tapping into the world's willingness 52 00:03:28,260 --> 00:03:30,963 to believe the worst of this evil man? 53 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:33,993 Or was there more to it? 54 00:03:35,220 --> 00:03:39,180 Psychoanalyst Walter Langer had no doubt. 55 00:03:39,180 --> 00:03:41,400 In the summary report he wrote 56 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:45,840 President Franklin D Roosevelt in 1943, 57 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:50,840 he blamed Hitler's extremely perverse sexual psychopathology 58 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,620 on a dysfunctional relationship with his mother and father. 59 00:03:55,620 --> 00:03:59,010 - Langer hit it right when he said Hitler was isolated 60 00:03:59,010 --> 00:04:01,650 from the love of normal human beings. 61 00:04:01,650 --> 00:04:05,580 And it refers to this theme that we've been pursuing 62 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:09,210 of Hitler's existential, inner emptiness. 63 00:04:09,210 --> 00:04:13,290 Hitler couldn't form a bond with anybody 64 00:04:13,290 --> 00:04:15,123 except his dog Blondi. 65 00:04:17,970 --> 00:04:20,520 - [Narrator] Langer's conclusions were based on 66 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,463 over a thousand pages of source material. 67 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,960 And within those pages where graphic accounts 68 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,773 of deranged sexual practices that beggar belief. 69 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,020 As early as high school, Hitler's family doctor 70 00:04:37,020 --> 00:04:40,980 described a troubling incident when a teenage Hitler 71 00:04:40,980 --> 00:04:43,923 was found guilty of a sexual indiscretion. 72 00:04:46,110 --> 00:04:50,220 The exact details of what happened have been lost. 73 00:04:50,220 --> 00:04:53,250 But Dr. Block said it involved a girl 74 00:04:53,250 --> 00:04:55,353 who was much younger than Hitler. 75 00:04:56,850 --> 00:04:59,820 Adolf managed to escape expulsion, 76 00:04:59,820 --> 00:05:02,433 but changed schools the following year, 77 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,950 it was the first sign of Hitler's nascent tendencies 78 00:05:07,950 --> 00:05:11,013 towards sexual voyeurism and violence. 79 00:05:14,940 --> 00:05:17,580 Not long after that incident, 80 00:05:17,580 --> 00:05:20,883 Hitler became obsessed with another young woman. 81 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,863 Adolf first saw Stephanie Isak in 1905. 82 00:05:30,630 --> 00:05:32,820 He was out walking the streets in Linz 83 00:05:32,820 --> 00:05:35,643 with his childhood friend August Kubizek. 84 00:05:36,930 --> 00:05:40,410 In his memoirs, Kubizek remembered the moment 85 00:05:40,410 --> 00:05:43,053 Hitler first laid eyes on Stephanie. 86 00:05:44,163 --> 00:05:47,640 Hitler had stood on the same street corner every day 87 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,523 at 5:00 PM, hoping to see her. 88 00:05:52,410 --> 00:05:54,540 One day Hitler thought Stephanie 89 00:05:54,540 --> 00:05:57,630 had deliberately avoided looking at him, 90 00:05:57,630 --> 00:05:59,433 and it drove him mad. 91 00:06:00,390 --> 00:06:03,030 He told his friend August he planned 92 00:06:03,030 --> 00:06:06,900 to kidnap the young woman and drag her off the bridge 93 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:11,493 and into the Danube River in a violent murder-suicide. 94 00:06:12,690 --> 00:06:15,330 - Hitler was a person of extremes. 95 00:06:15,330 --> 00:06:19,860 So he either loved totally or he hated totally. 96 00:06:19,860 --> 00:06:23,130 And this is an absolute recurring theme in his life. 97 00:06:23,130 --> 00:06:27,030 If things don't work out, I will kill myself. 98 00:06:27,030 --> 00:06:29,550 To him, everything in the end was death. 99 00:06:29,550 --> 00:06:33,960 Everything came down, if I don't get my way, I kill myself. 100 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:35,510 And then look what you've lost. 101 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:41,283 - [Narrator] Hitler never acted on his insane plan, 102 00:06:42,390 --> 00:06:45,570 but his obsession with Stephanie Isak 103 00:06:45,570 --> 00:06:47,853 would last for four years. 104 00:06:48,810 --> 00:06:53,810 During that time, he never exchanged a single word with her. 105 00:06:58,980 --> 00:07:02,190 - He was completely socially inept. 106 00:07:02,190 --> 00:07:06,180 He just didn't know how to deal with people at any stage. 107 00:07:06,180 --> 00:07:09,630 There's another report by the same friend of his, 108 00:07:09,630 --> 00:07:13,560 August Kubizek, how they went to look for a house 109 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,410 and the land lady came out, 110 00:07:16,410 --> 00:07:18,480 dressed in a rather loose fashion. 111 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,097 And Hitler was just staggered and said, 112 00:07:21,097 --> 00:07:22,530 "We can't go in this house. 113 00:07:22,530 --> 00:07:27,060 We can't go near this woman," a complete overreaction. 114 00:07:27,060 --> 00:07:29,490 And you can see that in the relationship 115 00:07:29,490 --> 00:07:31,860 with this woman that he followed around. 116 00:07:31,860 --> 00:07:36,180 Devotion from afar would drive him round following her, 117 00:07:36,180 --> 00:07:40,203 but never daring to break the spell by approaching her. 118 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,500 - [Narrator] Adolf Hitler declared that men 119 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:50,013 who succumbed to lust were weak and pitiful. 120 00:07:52,110 --> 00:07:54,723 Of course, he was above such things. 121 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,250 Hitler claimed he abstained from sex 122 00:07:59,250 --> 00:08:02,727 to preserve the thing he called "the flame of life." 123 00:08:04,410 --> 00:08:07,080 And it was a sacrifice he was willing to make 124 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,030 for the motherland. 125 00:08:09,748 --> 00:08:14,748 (trumpets playing) (crowd shouting) 126 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,493 His adoring followers lapped it up. 127 00:08:23,220 --> 00:08:26,460 Hitler said that by preserving this flame, 128 00:08:26,460 --> 00:08:29,760 he improved his energy and endurance. 129 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,033 And this meant he had more to give back to the Reich. 130 00:08:35,580 --> 00:08:37,410 This played into the mythology 131 00:08:37,410 --> 00:08:41,580 the Nazi propaganda machine constructed around him. 132 00:08:41,580 --> 00:08:43,980 The German people believed their leader 133 00:08:43,980 --> 00:08:46,680 was the model of self discipline. 134 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:50,850 He was impervious to all base human weaknesses, 135 00:08:50,850 --> 00:08:53,222 including sex. 136 00:08:53,222 --> 00:08:56,900 - Seig heil, seig heil. 137 00:08:56,900 --> 00:09:01,900 - He was always shown and presented as an abstinent person. 138 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,930 People knew that the Fuhrer doesn't drink alcohol. 139 00:09:06,930 --> 00:09:11,250 He doesn't eat meat. He walks with his dog every day. 140 00:09:11,250 --> 00:09:13,740 He's in the clear mountain air. 141 00:09:13,740 --> 00:09:17,460 Even the greeting, "Heil Hitler," heil means healthy. 142 00:09:17,460 --> 00:09:20,010 So the greeting that people would say every day 143 00:09:20,010 --> 00:09:25,010 to each other was always referring to the health of Hitler, 144 00:09:25,020 --> 00:09:27,153 which was the health of the nation. 145 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,890 - [Narrator] As a young man, Hitler had no 146 00:09:31,890 --> 00:09:35,553 conventional sexual contact with any woman. 147 00:09:37,050 --> 00:09:40,710 During the first World War, Hitler's comrades 148 00:09:40,710 --> 00:09:45,000 called him a muck and mocked him for his prudishness. 149 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,430 They taunted him for refusing to join 150 00:09:47,430 --> 00:09:49,893 their banter about sex and women. 151 00:09:51,150 --> 00:09:55,140 The truth was Adolf Hitler avoided sex 152 00:09:55,140 --> 00:09:57,273 because it terrified him. 153 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,130 He dedicated 10 pages of his autobiography, 154 00:10:05,130 --> 00:10:09,450 Mein Kampf, to an unhinged rant about the evils 155 00:10:09,450 --> 00:10:13,260 of prostitution and venereal disease, 156 00:10:13,260 --> 00:10:17,160 saying the struggle against syphilis and prostitution 157 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,703 is one of the most gigantic tasks of humanity. 158 00:10:23,940 --> 00:10:27,360 One of the earliest laws passed in the Third Reich 159 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,543 declared prostitution a criminal activity. 160 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:35,850 Soldiers unfortunate enough to contract a venereal disease 161 00:10:35,850 --> 00:10:38,913 found themselves facing criminal charges. 162 00:10:39,780 --> 00:10:43,470 But what gave Hitler such a morbid fear 163 00:10:43,470 --> 00:10:47,190 of what he called dirty sexuality? 164 00:10:47,190 --> 00:10:48,810 - If you look in Mein Kampf, 165 00:10:48,810 --> 00:10:51,750 you can see Hitler's racial views. 166 00:10:51,750 --> 00:10:55,260 And the theory of degeneration was that there are people 167 00:10:55,260 --> 00:10:59,430 of pure blood, in this case the Aryans, 168 00:10:59,430 --> 00:11:04,290 but all these others have ways of pulling them down 169 00:11:04,290 --> 00:11:07,590 by and polluting their blood. 170 00:11:07,590 --> 00:11:12,210 Now one of them was syphilis and the other one prostitution 171 00:11:12,210 --> 00:11:16,260 and prostitution was a particular bugbear for Hitler, 172 00:11:16,260 --> 00:11:18,000 because in those days, 173 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,810 as Jews were fleeing persecution in Russia, 174 00:11:21,810 --> 00:11:24,030 these young women would get scooped up 175 00:11:24,030 --> 00:11:28,140 when they turned up in places like Vienna, London, 176 00:11:28,140 --> 00:11:31,420 Berlin and forced into prostitution. 177 00:11:31,420 --> 00:11:34,560 So it was strongly associated with Jews. 178 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:38,283 So that's a reason why he was particularly down on it. 179 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,110 - [Narrator] Hitler told August Kubizek 180 00:11:43,110 --> 00:11:46,620 he would never have intimate relations with a woman 181 00:11:46,620 --> 00:11:49,503 because he was too afraid of catching syphilis. 182 00:11:50,910 --> 00:11:54,150 But just because he wouldn't touch 183 00:11:54,150 --> 00:11:56,103 didn't mean he couldn't look. 184 00:11:59,430 --> 00:12:02,910 Hitler and his friend visited the red light district 185 00:12:02,910 --> 00:12:07,170 in Vienna, where August described walking along the street, 186 00:12:07,170 --> 00:12:11,553 looking at prostitutes in their scanty and slovenly attire. 187 00:12:13,020 --> 00:12:15,420 Hitler insisted on several turns 188 00:12:15,420 --> 00:12:17,760 up and down the infamous street, 189 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,493 even though August had seen enough. 190 00:12:21,510 --> 00:12:24,840 That experience whet Hitler's appetite 191 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,900 for the seedier side of life. 192 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:32,100 August Kubizek recalled Adolf ranting for hours 193 00:12:32,100 --> 00:12:35,130 about depraved sexual habits. 194 00:12:35,130 --> 00:12:37,380 - Hitler was reported to be voyeuristic. 195 00:12:37,380 --> 00:12:40,590 The extent of this is still one of speculation, 196 00:12:40,590 --> 00:12:43,620 but there's some quite credible accounts of this. 197 00:12:43,620 --> 00:12:47,190 And I think this fits in with his personality 198 00:12:47,190 --> 00:12:50,760 and his sexuality to distance himself 199 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:54,633 so he could enjoy it, but not reveal anything of himself. 200 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,433 - [Narrator] In the early 1930s, 201 00:13:02,433 --> 00:13:07,080 as Adolf Hitler became the most powerful man in Germany, 202 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,383 the rumor mill began to crank into action. 203 00:13:12,210 --> 00:13:15,300 Not everyone was convinced by the image of Hitler 204 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:19,053 as a selfless Puritan, wedded only to Germany. 205 00:13:20,190 --> 00:13:23,463 For many, it could only mean one thing. 206 00:13:24,570 --> 00:13:28,080 For much of the 20th century, it was thought 207 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,070 there was only one reason, other than a religious calling, 208 00:13:32,070 --> 00:13:35,313 that a man would avoid heterosexual encounters. 209 00:13:36,390 --> 00:13:39,423 And that was if he preferred men. 210 00:13:43,860 --> 00:13:47,793 The rumors began in the trenches of the first World War. 211 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,290 The same comrades who taunted him for being a prude 212 00:13:52,290 --> 00:13:54,483 declared Adolf Hitler gay. 213 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,710 The supposed smoking gun 214 00:13:58,710 --> 00:14:00,843 was discovered by Herman Rauschning. 215 00:14:01,950 --> 00:14:06,150 Rauschning resigned from the party and fled Germany in 1936. 216 00:14:09,180 --> 00:14:11,820 Before he did, Rauschning tracked down 217 00:14:11,820 --> 00:14:13,563 Hitler's military record. 218 00:14:14,790 --> 00:14:17,520 He said he discovered the real reason 219 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,273 Hitler was never promoted, despite being a brave soldier. 220 00:14:22,770 --> 00:14:26,940 According to Rauschning, Adolf Hitler was court martialed 221 00:14:26,940 --> 00:14:30,693 for having homosexual relations with a senior officer, 222 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,020 although many historians caution 223 00:14:34,020 --> 00:14:37,503 that no proof of this claim has ever been found. 224 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,900 The lack of evidence doesn't come as any surprise. 225 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:44,730 - [Reporter] Adolf Hitler had seized control 226 00:14:44,730 --> 00:14:48,420 of a floundering government in a time of national crisis. 227 00:14:48,420 --> 00:14:51,240 - [Narrator] Once he seized power, Hitler made sure 228 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,933 all the murky chapters of his life were whitewashed. 229 00:14:58,590 --> 00:15:02,010 In recent years, researchers investigating 230 00:15:02,010 --> 00:15:04,740 Hitler's alleged homosexuality 231 00:15:04,740 --> 00:15:09,390 have drawn attention to the so-called Mend Protocol. 232 00:15:09,390 --> 00:15:14,250 Hans Mend fought in the same regiment as Adolf Hitler. 233 00:15:14,250 --> 00:15:16,950 After writing a sycophantic memoir 234 00:15:16,950 --> 00:15:19,530 about their time in the army together, 235 00:15:19,530 --> 00:15:22,233 Mend had a falling out with the Fuhrer. 236 00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:28,340 Furious, he revealed to a member of the German resistance 237 00:15:28,470 --> 00:15:30,330 what he said was the truth 238 00:15:30,330 --> 00:15:33,033 about Hitler's sex life during the war. 239 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:36,690 He claimed Hitler was caught in the act 240 00:15:36,690 --> 00:15:38,163 with a fellow soldier. 241 00:15:42,060 --> 00:15:46,830 Mend was arrested and convicted of what he claimed 242 00:15:46,830 --> 00:15:49,383 were trumped up child sex charges. 243 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,863 He died in prison in 1940. 244 00:15:53,790 --> 00:15:57,480 Hans Mend was an unreliable witness 245 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,613 and these are contentious claims. 246 00:16:00,930 --> 00:16:03,990 Many of the most senior experts in the field 247 00:16:03,990 --> 00:16:07,413 flatly refuse to believe Adolf Hitler was gay, 248 00:16:10,590 --> 00:16:12,420 but there are plenty of reports 249 00:16:12,420 --> 00:16:15,480 that seem to back up the theory. 250 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,420 Hitler's translator claimed to have overheard 251 00:16:18,420 --> 00:16:21,843 a Nazi general reading from a police record. 252 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,613 It contains shocking allegations about the Fuhrer. 253 00:16:28,260 --> 00:16:32,490 The file contained statements from underage boys in Munich, 254 00:16:32,490 --> 00:16:36,030 who said Hitler paid them to spend the night with him. 255 00:16:36,030 --> 00:16:39,780 More circumstantial evidence came from the boarding house 256 00:16:39,780 --> 00:16:44,780 Adolf Hitler lived in between 1910 and 1913 in Vienna. 257 00:16:46,530 --> 00:16:49,650 Meldemannstrabe Dormitory was notorious 258 00:16:49,650 --> 00:16:51,513 for all the wrong reasons. 259 00:16:52,860 --> 00:16:55,680 It was frequented by older men who went there 260 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,443 in search of much younger male prostitutes. 261 00:17:03,570 --> 00:17:07,890 This early exposure to Vienna's gay subculture 262 00:17:07,890 --> 00:17:11,403 seemed to have a surprising effect on Adolf Hitler. 263 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,660 In the early days of the Nazi Party, 264 00:17:15,660 --> 00:17:18,843 gay men were welcomed into his inner circle. 265 00:17:21,210 --> 00:17:23,760 And no one tried to hide it. 266 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:28,343 In fact, it was so widely known that in the early 1930s, 267 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:33,060 the party was called "a brotherhood of poofs" 268 00:17:33,060 --> 00:17:35,193 in an anti-Nazi newspaper. 269 00:17:37,350 --> 00:17:38,613 Hitler didn't care. 270 00:17:39,750 --> 00:17:42,663 He wanted only one thing of party members, 271 00:17:43,650 --> 00:17:47,283 to be unconditionally obedient and faithful to him. 272 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,963 What happened in their private lives was their business. 273 00:17:53,310 --> 00:17:57,723 Some gay Nazis would rise to the party's highest levels. 274 00:17:59,777 --> 00:18:03,027 (Hess speaking German) 275 00:18:04,890 --> 00:18:07,920 Many claimed that Hitler's Deputy Fuhrer 276 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,963 Rudolf Hess was homosexual. 277 00:18:15,210 --> 00:18:18,000 It was alleged that he was a leading light 278 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,740 in Berlin's thriving gay subculture between the wars. 279 00:18:22,740 --> 00:18:26,013 Among his comrades, he was affectionately called 280 00:18:26,013 --> 00:18:29,280 Fräulein Anna, or Black Emma. 281 00:18:38,490 --> 00:18:40,620 Hess and Hitler served together 282 00:18:40,620 --> 00:18:45,270 in the same regiment during World War I, 283 00:18:45,270 --> 00:18:49,380 and after the failed 1923 attempt by the Nazi Party 284 00:18:49,380 --> 00:18:51,330 to overthrow the government, 285 00:18:51,330 --> 00:18:55,233 the two men were incarcerated together in Landsburg Prison. 286 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,633 Their intimacy surprised Ernst Hanfstaengl. 287 00:19:01,860 --> 00:19:05,040 He suggested this period of isolation 288 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,790 crystallized an affinity between Hess and Hitler 289 00:19:08,790 --> 00:19:11,013 that might have bordered on the sexual. 290 00:19:16,290 --> 00:19:20,160 The Nazi party's most prominent, openly gay figure 291 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:21,963 was a man named Ernst Rohm, 292 00:19:23,460 --> 00:19:26,520 who co-founded the infamous Nazi militia, 293 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,983 the SA or Stormtroopers. 294 00:19:30,210 --> 00:19:32,913 - If ever Hitler had a best buddy, 295 00:19:34,140 --> 00:19:35,910 you might describe it as Ernst Rohm. 296 00:19:35,910 --> 00:19:37,650 They'd been together, you know, 297 00:19:37,650 --> 00:19:41,133 right from the foundation days of National Socialism. 298 00:19:42,060 --> 00:19:44,280 Rohm called Hitler Addie I think, 299 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,230 was one of the only people that didn't, 300 00:19:47,070 --> 00:19:48,660 was very easy in his company. 301 00:19:48,660 --> 00:19:53,660 Rohm was also very and overtly homosexual. 302 00:19:53,907 --> 00:19:56,190 The SA was a bit of a sort of hotbed 303 00:19:56,190 --> 00:20:01,190 of uber masculine Nazi gay sex. 304 00:20:01,620 --> 00:20:02,850 Ernst Rohm was right into that, 305 00:20:02,850 --> 00:20:05,643 and so were some of his associates. 306 00:20:06,870 --> 00:20:09,420 - [Narrator] Rohm was tried five times 307 00:20:09,420 --> 00:20:12,513 for violating laws against homosexual activity. 308 00:20:13,380 --> 00:20:17,370 He walked free, even after admitting he was bisexual 309 00:20:17,370 --> 00:20:19,023 during police interrogation. 310 00:20:21,810 --> 00:20:25,683 Adolf Hitler didn't care about Rohm's sexual identity. 311 00:20:26,610 --> 00:20:29,820 Even when the militia leader was accused of corrupting 312 00:20:29,820 --> 00:20:32,610 Germany's youth, and offered his resignation 313 00:20:32,610 --> 00:20:36,123 for the good of the party, Hitler turned him down. 314 00:20:37,170 --> 00:20:39,750 But the Alliance between the two men 315 00:20:39,750 --> 00:20:42,513 came to a sudden and very brutal end. 316 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:48,000 Siding with the homophobic SS commander, Heinrich Himmler, 317 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,730 Hitler conspired to have Rohm murdered 318 00:20:50,730 --> 00:20:54,780 in 1934 during the bloody purge 319 00:20:54,780 --> 00:20:57,423 known as the Night of the Long Knives. 320 00:20:58,410 --> 00:21:01,500 - A big meeting of all the SA people was called. 321 00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:04,920 Hitler turned up and a whole lot of police 322 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:09,330 and army people came up and arrested nearly everyone there. 323 00:21:09,330 --> 00:21:12,750 It must have come as a terrible shock to Rohm, 324 00:21:12,750 --> 00:21:15,510 and the relationship ended that day. 325 00:21:15,510 --> 00:21:18,210 Rohm was given the opportunity to suicide. 326 00:21:18,210 --> 00:21:20,430 He said, you know, if Hitler wants to kill me, 327 00:21:20,430 --> 00:21:21,840 he can do it himself, 328 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,503 and he was later executed that day, I think. 329 00:21:26,670 --> 00:21:29,010 - [Narrator] Nazi propaganda claimed 330 00:21:29,010 --> 00:21:31,230 that a coup had been averted, 331 00:21:31,230 --> 00:21:35,310 but historian Luther MacDone disputes this. 332 00:21:35,310 --> 00:21:37,650 He believes Hitler killed Rohm 333 00:21:37,650 --> 00:21:40,720 to hide evidence of his own homosexuality 334 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:45,630 and Ernst Hanfstaengl thought the same thing. 335 00:21:45,630 --> 00:21:48,930 He claimed the homosexual SA leader 336 00:21:48,930 --> 00:21:51,540 had hinted that it would only need 337 00:21:51,540 --> 00:21:54,303 a few words from him to silence Hitler. 338 00:21:55,650 --> 00:21:58,203 Perhaps that is why he was shot. 339 00:21:59,460 --> 00:22:04,460 - The interesting thing was that if Hitler existed today, 340 00:22:04,710 --> 00:22:07,590 if he was safe, he would become a figure 341 00:22:07,590 --> 00:22:11,790 of gay iconography and S&M iconography. 342 00:22:11,790 --> 00:22:14,310 If you look at the intense effort 343 00:22:14,310 --> 00:22:18,150 he put into designing the Nazi regalia, 344 00:22:18,150 --> 00:22:23,150 the black uniforms, the silver linings, the Swastika, 345 00:22:24,491 --> 00:22:26,730 the coloring of red around it. 346 00:22:26,730 --> 00:22:30,390 These are all deeply sadomasochistic themes, 347 00:22:30,390 --> 00:22:34,470 but they also appeal to a lot of German homosexuals. 348 00:22:34,470 --> 00:22:38,110 And we know that homosexuality was very ripe 349 00:22:38,110 --> 00:22:41,850 below the top echelons where they couldn't get away with it, 350 00:22:41,850 --> 00:22:44,043 regardless of their predilections. 351 00:22:47,430 --> 00:22:50,460 - [Narrator] The truth about Ernst Rohm's execution 352 00:22:50,460 --> 00:22:53,820 may never be known, but it represented 353 00:22:53,820 --> 00:22:57,633 a declaration of war against Germany's gay community. 354 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,550 Adolf Hitler had a complete about face 355 00:23:02,550 --> 00:23:06,150 and declared homosexuality as infectious 356 00:23:06,150 --> 00:23:08,163 and dangerous as the plague, 357 00:23:09,060 --> 00:23:13,980 and under Himmler's merciless SS, the ruthless Nazi campaign 358 00:23:13,980 --> 00:23:18,180 against homosexuality ran unchecked. 359 00:23:18,180 --> 00:23:21,060 - The homosexuals were seen as, you know, 360 00:23:21,060 --> 00:23:22,950 not part of the family structures 361 00:23:22,950 --> 00:23:24,780 that they wanted to promote, 362 00:23:24,780 --> 00:23:26,940 or part of the Germany that they wanted to promote, 363 00:23:26,940 --> 00:23:30,990 and they, like communists and Jews and a whole lot of people 364 00:23:30,990 --> 00:23:33,483 were sent away and killed. 365 00:23:36,450 --> 00:23:39,423 - [Narrator] Gay men were sent to concentration camps. 366 00:23:41,130 --> 00:23:45,153 As many as 10,000 were murdered under Nazi rule. 367 00:23:49,067 --> 00:23:51,236 (Hitler speaking German) 368 00:23:51,236 --> 00:23:55,950 Adolf Hitler may have been waging war on homosexuality 369 00:23:55,950 --> 00:23:58,950 as a way to deflect from his own urges, 370 00:23:58,950 --> 00:24:01,983 but it wasn't enough to stop people gossiping. 371 00:24:02,940 --> 00:24:05,340 Taking a wife would've been an easy way 372 00:24:05,340 --> 00:24:06,783 to shut down the rumors, 373 00:24:07,620 --> 00:24:10,773 but that was the last thing on Hitler's mind. 374 00:24:12,060 --> 00:24:15,480 He gave many reasons for not marrying. 375 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,310 He was too busy or would it upset his female voters, 376 00:24:20,310 --> 00:24:22,320 but was there a darker reason 377 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,230 behind Hitler's refusal to wed? 378 00:24:25,230 --> 00:24:28,083 Was it connected to his messy family history? 379 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:32,850 Although it's never been proven without a doubt, 380 00:24:32,850 --> 00:24:37,410 it's been suggested that Hitler suspected his own father 381 00:24:37,410 --> 00:24:40,353 was the illegitimate son of a Jewish man. 382 00:24:41,220 --> 00:24:44,040 If Hitler were ever to marry, 383 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,230 the expectation would be 384 00:24:46,230 --> 00:24:48,723 that he and his wife would start a family. 385 00:24:49,770 --> 00:24:52,020 But if he believed there was a chance 386 00:24:52,020 --> 00:24:55,023 the rumors that a Jewish grandfather were true, 387 00:24:55,980 --> 00:24:57,810 Hitler knew he would be passing 388 00:24:57,810 --> 00:25:00,660 Jewish blood onto his children. 389 00:25:00,660 --> 00:25:03,663 And he could never allow that to happen. 390 00:25:05,220 --> 00:25:08,580 - Hitler was a racial fanatic. 391 00:25:08,580 --> 00:25:13,580 And as somebody espousing the purity of the Aryan race, 392 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,030 all of this was totally antithetical to the image 393 00:25:18,030 --> 00:25:21,570 Hitler promoted for Germany and of course himself. 394 00:25:21,570 --> 00:25:24,000 It would've been highly embarrassing. 395 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,170 The different arguments about whether it's possible 396 00:25:28,170 --> 00:25:30,840 that he could have had a Jewish ancestor, 397 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,190 I think the weight is leaning 398 00:25:32,190 --> 00:25:34,530 towards the fact that he didn't. 399 00:25:34,530 --> 00:25:37,590 What's more important is whether he thought 400 00:25:37,590 --> 00:25:39,390 he had a Jewish ancestor. 401 00:25:39,390 --> 00:25:42,720 So I think the fact that he had a fear about it 402 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,073 is very important. 403 00:25:45,930 --> 00:25:48,000 - [Narrator] Hitler was a master 404 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,150 of keeping his private life to himself. 405 00:25:51,150 --> 00:25:55,350 Even the one official relationship he had with a woman 406 00:25:55,350 --> 00:25:57,213 is shrouded in secrecy. 407 00:25:58,110 --> 00:26:02,670 - Eva Braun was Hitler's girlfriend for quite a long time. 408 00:26:02,670 --> 00:26:05,010 They already met in the early '30, 409 00:26:05,010 --> 00:26:08,850 and they had a very intimate, strong relationship. 410 00:26:08,850 --> 00:26:12,120 When Hitler was not at the Berghof, 411 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:13,590 which was his mountain retreat, 412 00:26:13,590 --> 00:26:16,110 where Eva Braun was during the war, 413 00:26:16,110 --> 00:26:19,410 when he was in his military headquarters, 414 00:26:19,410 --> 00:26:23,730 he would phone her every night at 9:00 PM. 415 00:26:23,730 --> 00:26:26,826 - It was a long relationship in that 416 00:26:26,826 --> 00:26:29,700 it was it close to 13 years. 417 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:33,540 It was very difficult for her. 418 00:26:33,540 --> 00:26:35,760 She was hidden away, but it turns out 419 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,070 when they all got together at the Berghof, 420 00:26:38,070 --> 00:26:41,790 she was quite clearly the mistress of the house. 421 00:26:41,790 --> 00:26:43,770 Now there was some things Hitler wouldn't let her do. 422 00:26:43,770 --> 00:26:45,570 She wasn't allowed to smoke. 423 00:26:45,570 --> 00:26:48,810 She had to be careful what bathing costume she wore. 424 00:26:48,810 --> 00:26:53,810 He had this prudish kind of attitude. 425 00:26:53,940 --> 00:26:55,530 - Well, there is a controversy actually 426 00:26:55,530 --> 00:26:57,510 about Hitler's sex life. 427 00:26:57,510 --> 00:27:00,330 There's like scholars who say he didn't have a sex life. 428 00:27:00,330 --> 00:27:02,330 And others say he had a normal sex life. 429 00:27:05,850 --> 00:27:08,610 - [Narrator] After the war, Eva's hairdresser 430 00:27:08,610 --> 00:27:10,233 was questioned under oath. 431 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,490 He swore she told him no coital activity 432 00:27:14,490 --> 00:27:16,233 ever took place between them. 433 00:27:17,910 --> 00:27:21,660 This was backed up by Eva Brown's gynecologist, 434 00:27:21,660 --> 00:27:25,860 who said her vagina was so narrow that sexual intercourse 435 00:27:25,860 --> 00:27:28,323 would've been excruciatingly painful. 436 00:27:29,430 --> 00:27:33,210 Even her own diary hints at what was 437 00:27:33,210 --> 00:27:36,750 and wasn't going on with Adolf Hitler. 438 00:27:36,750 --> 00:27:38,977 In her diary, she wrote, 439 00:27:38,977 --> 00:27:42,360 "He uses me only for certain purposes. 440 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:43,947 Nothing else is possible." 441 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,983 But Eva did have her needs, 442 00:27:48,210 --> 00:27:50,910 and what she did next suggests 443 00:27:50,910 --> 00:27:53,073 Adolf Hitler couldn't satisfy them. 444 00:27:56,310 --> 00:27:59,430 She lobbied Hitler's personal medical, 445 00:27:59,430 --> 00:28:03,390 Dr. Theodor Morell, to give the Fuhrer 446 00:28:03,390 --> 00:28:06,303 something to jumpstart his sagging libido. 447 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,340 US military records show that the medication 448 00:28:11,340 --> 00:28:13,353 Morell gave him was testafiryn. 449 00:28:14,820 --> 00:28:18,300 Its active ingredient? (bull mooing) 450 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:19,830 Bull semen. 451 00:28:19,830 --> 00:28:22,200 - Morrell really was a quack. 452 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,330 He couldn't have made a good diagnosis 453 00:28:24,330 --> 00:28:26,790 if it had been pasted on his forehead. 454 00:28:26,790 --> 00:28:29,580 He believed in organ extracts. 455 00:28:29,580 --> 00:28:33,630 So he took a thyroid gland or pancreas from an animal, 456 00:28:33,630 --> 00:28:37,110 mulched it up and gave it. 457 00:28:37,110 --> 00:28:41,280 - Theo Morrell was a celebrity doctor in Berlin. 458 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,970 He was known for treating patients with diseases 459 00:28:44,970 --> 00:28:47,400 that don't exist, so basically you didn't go 460 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,040 to Morell when you had a severe illness, 461 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,560 but you actually went to him when you wanted to feel better. 462 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,110 So he was a kind of Dr. Feelgood, 463 00:28:55,110 --> 00:28:56,943 an early Dr. Feelgood. 464 00:28:58,890 --> 00:29:01,920 He was in favor of giving you injections. 465 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,170 He believed that injections are the best way 466 00:29:04,170 --> 00:29:07,770 to apply a medicine, 'cause it's the quickest way. 467 00:29:07,770 --> 00:29:09,570 And he was quite knowledgeable 468 00:29:09,570 --> 00:29:14,570 about vitamins and probiotic medicine. 469 00:29:14,670 --> 00:29:17,910 So in a way he was an avant garde type of doctor. 470 00:29:17,910 --> 00:29:21,270 - As the war went on, he was pumping Hitler 471 00:29:21,270 --> 00:29:23,250 full of all sorts of things: 472 00:29:23,250 --> 00:29:28,250 vitamins, glucose, amphetamines, and the list goes on. 473 00:29:29,820 --> 00:29:32,790 Arsenic and strychnine preparations. 474 00:29:32,790 --> 00:29:36,090 Most of them were harmless. 475 00:29:36,090 --> 00:29:37,560 You give somebody an injection 476 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,350 and they pee it out in 30 minutes. 477 00:29:40,350 --> 00:29:43,290 - He was happy to experiment 478 00:29:43,290 --> 00:29:45,720 and always happy when the patient felt happy. 479 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,240 So he didn't really look for the source of a problem. 480 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,033 He just wanted to cure the symptoms. 481 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,710 - [Narrator] It wasn't long before Dr. Morrell 482 00:29:55,710 --> 00:29:57,810 began treating Eva. 483 00:29:57,810 --> 00:30:00,573 She wanted some of what Hitler was having. 484 00:30:01,410 --> 00:30:03,930 - Hitler was Morell's patient A 485 00:30:03,930 --> 00:30:07,020 and Eva Braun was his patient B, 486 00:30:07,020 --> 00:30:08,760 and from his notes about patient B, 487 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,670 we can see that she actually requested 488 00:30:11,670 --> 00:30:15,000 similar medications than her boyfriend, 489 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,580 so she would be on the same chemical wavelength 490 00:30:17,580 --> 00:30:19,773 when they did meet at the Berghof. 491 00:30:20,790 --> 00:30:22,800 The only exception was that Hitler 492 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,160 was receiving male hormones like testosterone. 493 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:27,870 She obviously didn't receive those. 494 00:30:27,870 --> 00:30:31,080 She received female hormones, so for example 495 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,240 that she wouldn't have her period 496 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,030 while Hitler was at the Berghof. 497 00:30:36,030 --> 00:30:38,430 So my conclusion is that she probably 498 00:30:38,430 --> 00:30:41,043 didn't want to have a period so they could have sex. 499 00:30:43,170 --> 00:30:45,690 - [Narrator] Whatever Hitler was up to with Eva, 500 00:30:45,690 --> 00:30:48,363 his sexual appetites were varied. 501 00:30:49,770 --> 00:30:51,840 He didn't like to be touched. 502 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,653 So he found a predictable outlet to satisfy his hunger. 503 00:30:57,570 --> 00:31:00,033 Hitler liked to watch. 504 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,147 Strippers, dancers, acrobats, peep shows. 505 00:31:12,270 --> 00:31:15,450 He would ogle women performing at the circus, 506 00:31:15,450 --> 00:31:18,183 watching them closely through opera glasses. 507 00:31:20,010 --> 00:31:23,220 A favorite pastime was watching the strippers 508 00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:26,280 he invited to perform at his mountain retreat 509 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,453 in Berchtesgaden. 510 00:31:30,238 --> 00:31:34,200 But the German public knew nothing of any of this, 511 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:39,200 because Adolf Hitler set himself up as a model of virtue. 512 00:31:39,660 --> 00:31:43,500 - It was an important part of the cult 513 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:45,660 that the party created around Hitler 514 00:31:45,660 --> 00:31:50,660 to portray him as basically a health saint, 515 00:31:51,450 --> 00:31:56,450 someone who didn't have any vices, not even a private life, 516 00:31:57,630 --> 00:32:01,260 someone who was just kind of a pure channel, 517 00:32:01,260 --> 00:32:04,683 doing nothing else that than work for the German nation. 518 00:32:06,180 --> 00:32:09,543 - [Narrator] And he expected his people to follow his lead, 519 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:14,373 to do as he said, not as he did. 520 00:32:16,674 --> 00:32:19,174 (jazzy music) 521 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:25,530 The truth was Hitler itched for all the things 522 00:32:25,530 --> 00:32:26,523 he was condemning. 523 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,080 Along with his countless other sins, 524 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,323 Adolf Hitler was a world class hypocrite. 525 00:32:36,893 --> 00:32:39,690 (ominous music) 526 00:32:39,690 --> 00:32:42,570 Hitler's bent for voyeurism blossomed 527 00:32:42,570 --> 00:32:45,003 into a full blown porn addiction. 528 00:32:46,590 --> 00:32:49,590 Once his foul regime was in power, 529 00:32:49,590 --> 00:32:52,980 he co-opted the official Nazi party photographer, 530 00:32:52,980 --> 00:32:57,030 Heinrich Hoffman, to supply graphic stag films 531 00:32:57,030 --> 00:32:59,370 and pornographic photographs. 532 00:32:59,370 --> 00:33:03,300 They played most nights in Hitler's private theater 533 00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:04,533 in the chancellery. 534 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,680 He also found a way to make use 535 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,173 of his questionable artistic skills. 536 00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:15,900 A portfolio of intimate drawings by the Fuhrer 537 00:33:15,900 --> 00:33:19,773 reportedly found its way into a blackmailer's hands. 538 00:33:21,210 --> 00:33:23,850 The Nazi party traitor Franz Schwarz 539 00:33:23,850 --> 00:33:25,803 paid a ransom to retrieve them. 540 00:33:27,780 --> 00:33:31,683 The young woman depicted was Hitler's niece, Geli Raubal. 541 00:33:35,059 --> 00:33:37,440 (Hitler speaking German) 542 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:42,150 All the while he was publicly scolding the German public, 543 00:33:42,150 --> 00:33:46,083 Hitler's own private life was anything but spotless, 544 00:33:47,070 --> 00:33:50,760 but this was all behind closed doors. 545 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:55,620 The most overtly sexual thing Adolf Hitler did in public 546 00:33:55,620 --> 00:33:57,750 was to speak. 547 00:33:57,750 --> 00:34:02,750 - Sex courses through Hitler's interaction with the world. 548 00:34:04,290 --> 00:34:07,710 What made Hitler into the figure he was 549 00:34:07,710 --> 00:34:10,740 is that he was the greatest demagogue 550 00:34:10,740 --> 00:34:12,870 in the history of the world. 551 00:34:12,870 --> 00:34:16,890 And in those pre-television days, how did he do it? 552 00:34:16,890 --> 00:34:19,283 He did it through his speeches. 553 00:34:19,283 --> 00:34:23,160 (Hitler speaking German) 554 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,553 We know he used, was it a comedian or a mime? 555 00:34:27,450 --> 00:34:30,750 And he took some lessons or some tricks. 556 00:34:30,750 --> 00:34:33,270 And he used to practice before the camera, 557 00:34:33,270 --> 00:34:36,165 particularly the hand gestures. 558 00:34:36,165 --> 00:34:39,480 He went to great lengths to work out 559 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,480 how to use his hands and he became extraordinarily animated. 560 00:34:45,330 --> 00:34:48,600 So I think sex cruises through 561 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,656 all Hitler's dysfunctional behavior. 562 00:34:52,656 --> 00:34:56,239 (Hitler yelling in German) 563 00:34:57,079 --> 00:34:59,829 (crowd cheering) 564 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,180 It's well recorded that adult women, 565 00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:09,450 not screaming teenagers, would wet themselves 566 00:35:09,450 --> 00:35:11,790 and throw themselves, you know, 567 00:35:11,790 --> 00:35:14,610 held back by the guards and that. 568 00:35:14,610 --> 00:35:18,060 You have this contrast between a person 569 00:35:18,060 --> 00:35:20,860 who is internally empty 570 00:35:21,870 --> 00:35:24,540 and somebody who then gets on stage, 571 00:35:24,540 --> 00:35:29,250 stands before a microphone and pours out words, 572 00:35:29,250 --> 00:35:32,910 the ultimate charismatic prophet 573 00:35:32,910 --> 00:35:35,818 that people just go wild about. 574 00:35:35,818 --> 00:35:40,818 (Hitler speaking German) (crowd cheering) 575 00:35:42,810 --> 00:35:47,670 The basis of charisma, it's not only the charismatic figure, 576 00:35:47,670 --> 00:35:50,010 but it's the charismatic audience. 577 00:35:50,010 --> 00:35:52,260 It's a two way process. 578 00:35:52,260 --> 00:35:56,850 So they are getting, can we put it this way, turned on? 579 00:35:56,850 --> 00:36:01,260 And of course it comes back to him and he comes out ranting, 580 00:36:01,260 --> 00:36:05,379 sweating, but coming almost close to a climax. 581 00:36:05,379 --> 00:36:10,379 (Hitler yelling in German) (crowd cheering) 582 00:36:13,260 --> 00:36:16,500 Like somebody who's just had sex, he's soaked in sweat. 583 00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:19,620 he's exhausted, and well, he didn't smoke, 584 00:36:19,620 --> 00:36:21,570 but he probably would've asked for one. 585 00:36:28,260 --> 00:36:32,430 - [Narrator] He ranted about the dominance of man over woman 586 00:36:32,430 --> 00:36:36,810 saying if you go to a woman, don't forget your whip. 587 00:36:36,810 --> 00:36:41,160 - One of the ways in which he enhanced his public image, 588 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:42,810 he carried whips. 589 00:36:42,810 --> 00:36:44,340 He loved to carry a whip. 590 00:36:44,340 --> 00:36:48,150 And if he could, he'd have one of his big dogs with him 591 00:36:48,150 --> 00:36:51,810 and with people around him, especially his women, 592 00:36:51,810 --> 00:36:55,110 he wanted them to call him Wolf. 593 00:36:55,110 --> 00:36:57,270 Now Wolf is not a very peaceable character 594 00:36:57,270 --> 00:37:00,150 to be introduced into your sex fantasies. 595 00:37:00,150 --> 00:37:03,840 So I think the sexual, the sadomasochistic element 596 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:08,840 was really such a prominent feature of his presentation, 597 00:37:08,940 --> 00:37:13,940 but everything in public was the most crude way 598 00:37:14,490 --> 00:37:18,570 of saying I am powerful, I am big, 599 00:37:18,570 --> 00:37:22,623 I am the ultimate weapon as a human being. 600 00:37:26,010 --> 00:37:27,930 - [Narrator] But in his private life, 601 00:37:27,930 --> 00:37:30,690 it was another matter all together. 602 00:37:30,690 --> 00:37:35,340 Many believe the only way out of Hitler found gratification 603 00:37:35,340 --> 00:37:39,303 was when he took a submissive role in sexual encounters. 604 00:37:40,140 --> 00:37:43,233 He wanted the whip turn back on himself. 605 00:37:44,130 --> 00:37:46,950 And if the accounts are to be believed, 606 00:37:46,950 --> 00:37:51,243 his desires would take him to some extremely dark places. 607 00:37:57,570 --> 00:38:01,470 One of the most famous German actresses of the day, 608 00:38:01,470 --> 00:38:06,240 Renate Muller, was an unfortunate witness to this. 609 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:09,780 When Hitler became a regular visitor to film sets 610 00:38:09,780 --> 00:38:12,960 after he met a American born German movie producer 611 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,810 and director Alfred Zeisler 612 00:38:15,810 --> 00:38:17,910 asked him to send actresses over 613 00:38:17,910 --> 00:38:20,043 to join him at the chancellery. 614 00:38:21,030 --> 00:38:23,310 It was only a matter of time 615 00:38:23,310 --> 00:38:27,270 before the beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed Renate Muller 616 00:38:27,270 --> 00:38:32,220 caught the fewer eye and they began spending time together. 617 00:38:32,220 --> 00:38:35,340 After one evening at Hitler's apartment, 618 00:38:35,340 --> 00:38:38,220 Renate told her producer Zeisler 619 00:38:38,220 --> 00:38:40,713 a shocking and disturbing story. 620 00:38:45,143 --> 00:38:49,050 Zeisler claimed that Hitler had begged Renate 621 00:38:49,050 --> 00:38:51,303 to kick him while he lay on the floor. 622 00:38:53,340 --> 00:38:57,360 She finally gave into his wishes and kicked him 623 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,063 and kept kicking him as he begged for more. 624 00:39:02,070 --> 00:39:05,130 He became more and more excited 625 00:39:05,130 --> 00:39:08,523 and finally climaxed by masturbating in front of her. 626 00:39:10,170 --> 00:39:13,803 He then thanked her warmly for a pleasant evening. 627 00:39:15,030 --> 00:39:19,170 - Connection between sexuality and violence is not uncommon 628 00:39:19,170 --> 00:39:21,090 because it's really, 629 00:39:21,090 --> 00:39:23,520 if you look at the basis of sadomasochism, 630 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,070 the two are so totally entwined, 631 00:39:26,070 --> 00:39:29,340 not just what you do sexually, but how you carry it out. 632 00:39:29,340 --> 00:39:31,020 You only have to look at some of these 633 00:39:31,020 --> 00:39:34,920 ghastly serial killers who go in for that. 634 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,999 The rumors about Hitler engaging 635 00:39:36,999 --> 00:39:41,910 in extreme sadomasochistic practices 636 00:39:41,910 --> 00:39:44,700 fits perfectly in with his personality. 637 00:39:44,700 --> 00:39:48,390 He internalized everything that he didn't like, 638 00:39:48,390 --> 00:39:50,250 the losses in his life. 639 00:39:50,250 --> 00:39:54,750 And he sadistically projected his rage out on everybody. 640 00:39:54,750 --> 00:39:58,590 And it's quite feasible that somebody like that 641 00:39:58,590 --> 00:40:01,023 would have these kind of sexual practices. 642 00:40:04,410 --> 00:40:06,540 - [Narrator] Not long after that, 643 00:40:06,540 --> 00:40:08,550 Renate Muller fell to her death 644 00:40:08,550 --> 00:40:11,490 from the upstairs window of her sanatorium 645 00:40:11,490 --> 00:40:13,443 during a visit from the Gestapo. 646 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:19,563 No one knows if she was pushed or if she jumped. 647 00:40:20,610 --> 00:40:24,660 But the question remains, did that evening with Hitler 648 00:40:24,660 --> 00:40:27,393 drive Renate Muller to her death? 649 00:40:29,460 --> 00:40:33,300 Renate wasn't the only woman to experience 650 00:40:33,300 --> 00:40:36,330 Hitler's extreme appetites. 651 00:40:36,330 --> 00:40:40,293 His 23 year old half niece, Geli Raubal, 652 00:40:41,190 --> 00:40:43,860 with whom he had had a relationship for six years, 653 00:40:43,860 --> 00:40:46,350 found herself on the receiving end 654 00:40:46,350 --> 00:40:49,410 of Hitler's darkest sexual urges. 655 00:40:49,410 --> 00:40:54,410 It seems his perversion was an extreme form of masochism 656 00:40:54,750 --> 00:40:57,660 in which he derived sexual gratification 657 00:40:57,660 --> 00:41:01,233 from having a woman urinate or defecate on him. 658 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,520 It's a contentious claim, 659 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,760 in part because the source of the information 660 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:13,760 was Otto Strasser, whose acrimonious falling out with Hitler 661 00:41:13,830 --> 00:41:16,500 meant he had an ax to grind. 662 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:19,950 But US analyst Walter Langer believed him, 663 00:41:19,950 --> 00:41:22,080 in part because it matched 664 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,050 Hitler's deviant psychosexual profile 665 00:41:25,050 --> 00:41:28,083 Langer had drawn up for the US government. 666 00:41:29,100 --> 00:41:32,310 There were also other unnamed sources 667 00:41:32,310 --> 00:41:34,503 that backed up Strasser's story. 668 00:41:36,210 --> 00:41:39,753 Strasser claimed to have heard the story from Geli herself. 669 00:41:43,530 --> 00:41:45,870 And he didn't hold back. 670 00:41:45,870 --> 00:41:49,800 He said Geli had told him that Hitler demanded things of her 671 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,893 that were simply repulsive. 672 00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:58,053 Strasser asked her why she didn't just sleep with her uncle. 673 00:41:59,010 --> 00:42:01,443 And her explanation was shocking. 674 00:42:02,850 --> 00:42:06,300 Geli told him that Hitler made her undress, 675 00:42:06,300 --> 00:42:11,010 squat over his face, and when he became sexually excited, 676 00:42:11,010 --> 00:42:15,273 urinate on him and that gave him sexual pleasure. 677 00:42:16,410 --> 00:42:19,050 Geli said the whole performance 678 00:42:19,050 --> 00:42:21,693 was extremely disgusting to her. 679 00:42:22,890 --> 00:42:27,090 - This brought out every aspect of himself 680 00:42:27,090 --> 00:42:29,340 that he normally tried to hide. 681 00:42:29,340 --> 00:42:33,540 So it's no surprise that if the rumors have any basis, 682 00:42:33,540 --> 00:42:37,290 that what you can call a basic S&M practice, 683 00:42:37,290 --> 00:42:42,290 being humiliated in the most personal way with body fluids 684 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:48,220 of the worst kind are fitted into the skin 685 00:42:49,260 --> 00:42:53,673 inside the masochist, outside the sadist. 686 00:42:55,740 --> 00:42:57,300 - [Narrator] It's possible 687 00:42:57,300 --> 00:43:00,330 that her uncles warped preoccupation 688 00:43:00,330 --> 00:43:02,850 contributed to Geli's demise. 689 00:43:02,850 --> 00:43:06,063 She died soon after she spoke with Otto Strasser. 690 00:43:07,410 --> 00:43:10,530 She was found in Hitler's apartment 691 00:43:10,530 --> 00:43:12,513 with a shotgun wound to the chest. 692 00:43:13,530 --> 00:43:16,833 The official cause of death was suicide, 693 00:43:17,820 --> 00:43:20,610 but many doubted the lively young woman 694 00:43:20,610 --> 00:43:23,040 would've taken her own life. 695 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:24,870 - Hitler's relationship with Geli 696 00:43:24,870 --> 00:43:29,253 was definitely the most important relationship of his life. 697 00:43:30,090 --> 00:43:34,290 If you jump to the fact that after she killed herself, 698 00:43:34,290 --> 00:43:38,460 he her room locked up, nobody was allowed to enter, 699 00:43:38,460 --> 00:43:40,680 and he was reputed to go in there 700 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:43,350 once a year on the date of her death. 701 00:43:43,350 --> 00:43:46,230 So you could see that this summed up 702 00:43:46,230 --> 00:43:49,530 everything he wanted in a relationship. 703 00:43:49,530 --> 00:43:52,590 And when you look at it, you're a bit taken aback. 704 00:43:52,590 --> 00:43:57,360 It was semi incestuous. It was his half sister's daughter. 705 00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,510 There was a very big age difference 706 00:44:00,510 --> 00:44:04,743 and it ended so badly that she killed herself. 707 00:44:07,950 --> 00:44:10,680 - [Narrator] Whatever Adolf Hitler did 708 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,363 or didn't do to his niece, 709 00:44:13,260 --> 00:44:15,483 he mourned Geli for the rest of his life. 710 00:44:16,530 --> 00:44:20,163 After she died, her portrait hung by his bed. 711 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:25,983 Beside it was a likeness of Hitlers beloved mother Klara. 712 00:44:28,152 --> 00:44:32,040 Geli Raubal's death remained a mystery, 713 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,350 but in the face of public pressure, 714 00:44:34,350 --> 00:44:37,203 the prosecutor reopened his investigation. 715 00:44:38,580 --> 00:44:42,570 Today, there's no way of knowing what he discovered 716 00:44:42,570 --> 00:44:44,583 because the case file is missing. 717 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,410 When Hitler became chancellor, 718 00:44:49,410 --> 00:44:51,570 one of the first things he ordered 719 00:44:51,570 --> 00:44:53,970 was the destruction of any records 720 00:44:53,970 --> 00:44:57,153 that cast the Nazi leadership in poor light. 721 00:44:58,260 --> 00:45:01,230 He made sure that any incriminating evidence 722 00:45:01,230 --> 00:45:03,393 against him was destroyed, 723 00:45:04,380 --> 00:45:08,373 but Renate and Geli's stories have a common thread. 724 00:45:09,210 --> 00:45:12,543 Both describe acts of extreme masochism. 725 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,143 And they came from two different sources. 726 00:45:16,980 --> 00:45:21,000 One of them, aggrieved former Nazi Otto Strasser, 727 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:22,413 despised Hitler. 728 00:45:23,550 --> 00:45:27,363 He made it a personal mission to discredit the Fuhrer. 729 00:45:28,230 --> 00:45:30,750 But the American film director, 730 00:45:30,750 --> 00:45:33,780 Alfred Zeisler, had no such agenda. 731 00:45:33,780 --> 00:45:35,700 And there's no suggestion 732 00:45:35,700 --> 00:45:38,253 that there was any collusion between the two men. 733 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,230 These claims remain shrouded in controversy, 734 00:45:43,230 --> 00:45:45,810 but there is a bigger question. 735 00:45:45,810 --> 00:45:49,680 Why even bother trying to untangle the truth 736 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,440 about Hitler's sex life? 737 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:57,390 - We cannot guarantee that another Hitler will not arise. 738 00:45:57,390 --> 00:45:59,430 You need certain circumstances 739 00:45:59,430 --> 00:46:02,340 and you need a particular type of person. 740 00:46:02,340 --> 00:46:05,790 But when you look at what is the greatest crime in history, 741 00:46:05,790 --> 00:46:07,620 namely the Holocaust, 742 00:46:07,620 --> 00:46:10,260 you need to do everything you can 743 00:46:10,260 --> 00:46:12,723 to understand the perpetrator. 744 00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:18,630 - [Narrator] Great minds have struggled to understand 745 00:46:18,630 --> 00:46:21,003 Adolf Hitler's twisted Genesis. 746 00:46:23,610 --> 00:46:26,220 Many of those who grapple with the question 747 00:46:26,220 --> 00:46:31,110 can't fathom the public's obsession with Hitler's sexuality, 748 00:46:31,110 --> 00:46:32,940 because let's face it, 749 00:46:32,940 --> 00:46:36,870 it's a side show compared with the unassailable truth 750 00:46:36,870 --> 00:46:39,123 of the horrors he unleashed on the world. 751 00:46:40,140 --> 00:46:43,920 But the morbid fascination with Adolf Hitler's sex life 752 00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,603 reflects a burning need. 753 00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:50,370 We want assurance he was nothing like us, 754 00:46:50,370 --> 00:46:53,523 that he was an outlier, an abomination. 755 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,903 The more depraved his personal life, the better. 756 00:46:58,860 --> 00:47:02,670 The truth is we want no part of whatever club 757 00:47:02,670 --> 00:47:06,183 was unlucky enough to have Hitler as a member. 758 00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:12,120 That's how we cast him out of the human race. 759 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:16,110 So we grasp at anything that proves he was a freak. 760 00:47:16,110 --> 00:47:20,103 And the more proof we have, the safer we feel. 761 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:25,500 The world needs to think that after Adolf Hitler was made, 762 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:30,500 they broke the mold because then we can believe 763 00:47:30,630 --> 00:47:32,673 we'll never see his like again. 764 00:47:33,825 --> 00:47:36,575 (dramatic music)