Was Adolf Hitler a Paedophile?
The most hated man in history who was responsible for more than 70 million deaths during WW2
had a penchant for suicidal teenagers. Some psychologists also believe he was a coprophile. Was
Adolf Hitler a paedophile?
By Siobhán Pat Mulcahy
In research following Hitler's death, a variety of claims have been made about his sexuality: that he
was gay or bisexual or asexual - that he had only one testicle and that he was a coprohiliac. But
what is the reality?
Hitler had “sexual contact” with only five women during his
lifetime – four of them were teenagers when he first made sexual
advances toward them. All of the women attempted suicide and
four of them succeeded.
From the medical records of the German dictator's physician, Dr
Theodor Morell, we know Hitler took medication for sexual
dysfunction, that he had a morbid fear of taking tablets and that
by the time of his death, he was injecting up to 82 different types
of drugs into his body each day.
Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering - himself a morphine addict
by the war's end - gave him the unflattering nickname “Reich
syringe master“.
But what were Adolf Hitler's sexual proclivities? Was he a
paedophile?
A recent book “Was Hitler ill?“ based on Morell's records
confirms that he began giving Hitler injections of testosterone
and a cocktail made from the semen and prostate glands of
young bulls along with injections of methamphetamine,
barbiturates, opiates and assorted other potions.
Hitler with breasts and baby.
Dr Morrell's notes also suggest that Hitler had been left sexually Painting by Indonesian artist,
impotent as a result of lower abdominal injuries suffered while
Ronald Manullang
serving as a Corporal during WW1.
Morell refers frequently to Hitler's “abdominal problems“ stating that his boss was suffering “from
complete exhaustion of the lower intestines and abdomen“ which caused him headaches, stomach
cramps and diarrhea.
Could Hitler's sexual impotence explain why he targeted pubescent girls with no sexual experience
of their own?
Hitler preferred, or at least was strongly attracted to, vulnerable teenage women even when he had
reached his 40s. In fact, the first time he is known to have had a “girlfriend“, he was already in his
late 30s while the unlucky girl in question was aged only 16.
According to US psychologist Adrea Antczak, many of Hitler's “peculiarities“ resulted from an
abused childhood.
“His early years, through to his adolescence were encompassed by a negative environment that
instilled in him hatred, anger, confusion and self-loathing,“ Antczak says in her essay “The
Psychological Development of Adolf Hitler”.
“Hitler's father was a short-tempered and brutal man who frequently beat him and there is
substantial proof that child abuse has severe psychological effects that cannot be reversed. The
effects include anger, hatred, aggressiveness, hostility, and poor relationships with peers and the
opposite sex.“
She says: “When reviewing Hitler's childhood from the eight stages of life, it is clear that he was
unable to complete any of the stages successfully ... I think it's safe to say that by the time he
completed his adolescent stage he suffered from identity confusion. His hatred and confusion laid
the foundation for his murderous hatred that fueled the Holocaust.”
Antczak says : “Adolf Hitler was extremely close to his mother. He hated his father more and more
as he grew up and became more and more dependent on the affection of his mother.“ she says.
“The Nizkor Project” (2011) -a psychological analysis and reconstruction of Adolf Hitler backs up
Antczak's findings. It says: “He became neurotic, seeking out people that were perfect and he would
put them on a pedestal. At the first sign of imperfection, however, Hitler was greatly disappointed
and would then treat them in a disgraceful manner.“
Hitler often stated that young Ayrian women - especially virginal ones - were the model of
perfection, yet he treated the adolescent girls he found attractive, disgracefully.
Also, according to the Nizkor Project, an event that took a significant psychological toll of Adolf
was the discovering of his parents having sexual intercourse.
“Adolf felt betrayed by his mother and this affected his relationships with
women for the rest of his life.“
At least four of Hitler's reputed girlfriends committed suicide after having
“sexual contact“ with him and at least one other attempted suicide but
failed.
The first woman romantically linked with Hitler was Angela “Geli“
Raubal (1908-1931), Hitler's half-niece. She was the second child of
Hitler's older half sister, also called Angela. Raubal became close to her
uncle from 1925 onwards when her mother became Hitler's housekeeper.
In 1925, Geli was 16-years-old and Hitler was 36.
The young Geli moved into Hitler's Munich apartment in 1929 when she
enrolled in medicine at the city's university. According to Geli's mother
Angela, after he discovered she was having an affair with his chauffeur,
Angela "Geli" Raubal
Hitler did not allow her to see her friends, and attempted to have himself
committed suicide in
or someone he trusted with her at all times - accompanying her on
1931
shopping trips, to the movies, and to the opera.
Geli Raubal was in effect a prisoner for almost two years. He and Raubal argued on September 18,
1931 when he refused to allow her to go to Vienna for an overnight stay. The next day, Raubal was
found dead from a gunshot wound to the lung; she had shot herself in the Munich apartment with
Hitler's pistol. She was 23. Hitler did not attend her funeral but later said “she was the only woman
he ever really loved“.
The second suicidal teenager romantically linked to Hitler in the late 1920s was Maria Reiter
(1911 - 1992). She told her story to the German magazine Stern in 1959.
Hitler met Reiter in 1927 when she was working in a shop in
Obersalzberg, one of his favorite holiday retreats. According to her
account, the 37-year old Hitler became friendly with the 16-year-old girl,
and asked her out on a date. At the end of the evening he made a “coarse
sexual advance“ towards her which she rejected. After several more dates,
Hitler told her that “he wanted her to be his wife, to have blonde children,
but he also spoke of his duty, his mission“.
After his declaration of love, Hitler ignored her for several months,
plunging her into a deep depression. In despair, the 16-year-old attempted
to hang herself, but her brother-in-law found her and cut her down before
she died.
Reiter married in the 1930s, divorced and then remarried. She claims she
Maria Reiter - attempted
had one night of passion with Hitler (between her two marriages) but their
suicide 1927
physical relationship cannot be confirmed.
Third on the suicidal list of Hitler's women was Renate Muller (19061937) a German singer and actress of both stage and film. By the early 1930s, Muller was
considered to be as big a star as Marlene Dietrich with a great future. A blue-eyed blonde, she was
courted by the Nazi party to appear in their propaganda films as “the ideal Ayrian woman“ but she
refused.
In 1935, Muller had a three hour meeting alone in a Berlin hotel
bedroom with Adolf Hitler. Apparently, the meeting did not go well.
Unlike the teenage women Hitler liked to manipulate, Muller was
already in her late 20s; she was financially independent, did not
believe in Fascism and could not be easily bullied.
Almost immediately after her meeting with Hitler, Muller's career
began to fail and she later became addicted to morphine. She had
refused to give up her Jewish lover at Hitler's request and also refused
to act in films promoting Nazi propaganda.
According to the UK Channel 4 documentary “Sex and the Swastika“
(Feb 2009), Muller jumped from a Berlin mental hospital window to
her death in 1937. Germany's national newspapers ran a story stating
she had died “as a result of an epileptic fit“.
Fourth on the list of Hitler's suicidal women was Unity Valkyrie
Renate Muller committed suicide
Mitford (1914 - 1948), an English aristocrat and Hitler devotee.
in 1937
Unity Mitford saw Hitler in action for the first time when she traveled
(as part of a British Fascist delegation) to the now infamous
Nuremberg Rally in 1933. Though she never got to speak to him, she
was immediately smitten. In 1934, (aged 19) she left England for
Munich to be near him. Mitford's biographer said: “She was obsessed
with meeting Hitler, so she really set out to stalk him.“
Her plan to get close to the dictator worked. Soon Mitford received
invitations to Nazi party rallies and state occasions and she became part
of his trusted inner circle. When Hitler announced the “Anschluss” in
1938, Mitford appeared with him on the balcony in Vienna.
But after Britain's declaration of war on Germany (September 3, 1939),
Unity Mitford went to the English Garden in Munich, took a pearlhandled pistol given to her by Hitler from her handbag, and shot herself
Unity Mitford died from
in the head. She survived the suicide attempt and was hospitalized in
complications of her suicide
Munich.
attempt in 1948
Hitler even found time to visit her despite the on-going war. He also
paid her bills and arranged for her return to Britain. Mitford never recovered from her injuries as the
bullet remained lodged in her skull. She died of meningitis in
Scotland in 1948.
Eva Anna Braun; (1912 -1945) was Adolf Hitler's longtime
companion and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. In 1929,
Braun, aged 17, first met the 40-year-old Hitler in Munich
when she was working as an assistant to Nazi Party
photographer Heinrich Hoffman.
Though she eventually became a key figure within Hitler's
inner social circle, the German public was unaware of her
existence until after her death.
Braun first attempted suicide on August 10, 1932 by shooting
herself in the chest with her father's pistol. Historians believe
this attempt was not serious, but merely a bid to get Hitler's
attention.
Her second suicide attempt occurred in May 1935 - according
Eva Braun committed suicide 1945
to a fragment of her diary and the account of biographer Nerin
Gun, - when she took an overdose of sleeping pills.
A decade later, as the Third Reich collapsed, she swore loyalty to the Fuehrer and went to the Berlin
bunker to be by his side. On April 29, 1945, as Red Army troops fought their way through Berlin's
streets, Braun and Hitler married in a brief civil ceremony. She was 33 and he was 56. Less than 40
hours later, they committed suicide together in the bunker's sitting room.
Does the list of suicidal young women (with Renate Muller as the exception) prove that he was
attracted to underage girls - specifically ones he could bully, manipulate and dominate - that in
effect he was a paedophile?
Two reports commissioned by the US government during WW2 claimed that Hitler was both
impotent and a coprophile (a person who gets sexual pleasure from having human faeces spread on
their bodies).
The first, a detailed study of Hitler's sexuality and mental state, A Psychological Analysis of Adolf
Hitler: His Life and Legend, written by Walter C. Langer (and other leading psychoanalysts) stated
that Hitler was an impotent coprophile.
Psychologist Henry Murray wrote a separate psychoanalytical report called Analysis of the
Personality of Adolph Hitler... in which he also dealt with Hitler's alleged coprophilia but it's overall
summary diagnosed Hitler as a schizophrenic.