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Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality

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Original language(s)
  
English

Editor(s)
  
Blake West

Initial release
  
17 June 2004

7.3/10
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Country of origin
  
United States

Producer(s)
  
Gabriel Rotello

Running time
  
90 minutes

Produced by
  
Gabriel Rotello

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Directed by
  
Fenton Bailey Randy Barbato

Directors
  
Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato

Cast
  
Adolf Hitler, Lothar Machtan, Ron Rosenbaum, Michealangelo Signorile

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Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality is a documentary film based on the research of German Professor Lothar Machtan for his 2001 book The Hidden Hitler that claimed Adolf Hitler was a homosexual. Aired by HBO's CINEMAX Reel Life, the 90 minute documentary was directed by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato and Gabriel Rotello and was produced by Gabriel Rotello.

Other interviews in the documentary include those with:

  • Geoffrey Giles, author of a study of gays in the Nazi party, professor at the University of Florida
  • Brigitte Hamann, German historian and author
  • Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler
  • Ralf Dose, German gay historian and founder of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society
  • Michelangelo Signorile, gay activist author

    • Of the film, a Variety review called it "a platform for taking Machtan's argument seriously."

    Controversy

    Most mainstream historians and surviving eyewitnesses dispute Machtan's argument (see Sexuality of Adolf Hitler).

    References

    Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality Wikipedia
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