In 1995 Kevin Abrams and I
published The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in
the Nazi Party, the first book since Samuel Igra's Germany's National
Vice to address the essential role which homosexuals played in the
development of Nazism and the administration of the Third Reich. In the
following two years the two of us, independently, have given dozens of speeches
in the United States, Israel and England and have had the pleasure of discussing
and debating our work on more than a hundred radio and television programs
across North America. We have also received a great many letters of appreciation
(and, as you might imagine, more than a little hate-mail) from readers around
the world, especially since The Pink Swastika went online on the Internet
in 1996.
While the market for a book
like The Pink Swastika is understandably limited, reader loyalty has been
remarkably high and we have received a great many requests for more information
on this topic. In 1996 we responded to this request by publishing a second
edition, which included 16 additional pages of material, and, for the first
time, an index.
Since then, both Kevin and I
have continued to accumulate material on the subject, but my own studies have
broadened. I have come to discover, through various leads, a dark and powerful
homosexual presence in other historical periods: the Spanish Inquisition, the
French “Reign of Terror,” the era of South African apartheid, and the two
centuries of American slavery. My thoughts have increasingly turned toward
writing a larger, more comprehensive analysis of homosexuality in history. I
have come to believe, with Samuel Igra, that homosexuality has truly been a
“poisoned stream” in human history. Igra traced the course of this stream
through German history only, yet evidence suggests it is a river with many
tributaries in many nations.
The Poisoned Stream is
a book with a dual purpose. First, it is a response to all those who have wanted
more information on homosexuality and Nazism, since it contains a great deal of
new material that was not included in The Pink Swastika. My review of
Igra's book, which I have titled Germany's National Vice Revisited,
contains important excerpts from his work, which has not been available for over
50 years. It is supplemented and punctuated by material from many additional
sources, some familiar to readers of The Pink Swastika, some not. My
article, How American ‘Gays’ are Stealing the Holocaust incorporates and
expands upon the 1996 Initial Report of the International Committee for
Holocaust Truth. Included in this article are some of my findings from a
recent trip to Munich and the Dachau concentration camp. The article
Exploding the Myth of the “Pink Triangle,” is a synopsis of The Pink
Swastika which I hope will prove useful to those of you who wish to reprint
this information for others.
Second, The Poisoned Stream
is a starting point for the larger work which I envision. The Igra material
broadens the scope of our study to the events surrounding World War I and
addresses the influence of homosexuals on these events. Additional volumes,
addressing other periods of history on which homosexuals had a significant
sociopolitical influence, will follow this one.
A few housekeeping items.
First, the reader may notice a difference in the use of the term “homosexualist”
between sections of the book. Igra’s definition of homosexualist is focused on
sexual conduct and includes virtually all people who engage in sexual
perversion, especially homosexuality and pederasty. I define homosexualism as a
political position. A homosexualist is a homosexual or non-homosexual person who
promotes the legitimacy of homosexuality as a valid alternative to heterosexual
monogamy. Second, I have taken the liberty of harmonizing the various spellings
of the name Rohm (which occur because of a German symbol which is absent from
English) throughout the book.
Finally, I have not included a
separate acknowledgments section in this book, but I would like to thank Kevin
Abrams for contributing several sources of information which are used here, and
for his dedication to educating the public on this subject on the Internet.
Other books by this author:
The
Pink Swastika
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