Hidden Hitler

"But the circumstantial evidence Machtan offers is just that--circumstantial. And the hard evidence seems far less reliable than he would have us believe. ..But the biggest problem with Machtan's book (which has been translated by John Brownjohn) isn't the reliability of his sources but his mode of argumentation. He accepts what fits his thesis and rejects what doesn't. One feels, at times, that one is reading an internal F.B.I. report from the J. Edgar Hoover era rather than an evenhanded work of scholarship in which the author is ready to be led by the facts....Though Machtan doesn't succeed in proving that Hitler was an active homosexual, he does demonstrate that his life, in both the personal and the political spheres, was suffused with homosexual themes and personalities. In some odd way, this may actually serve to humanize Hitler. But it doesn't serve to explain him."Machtan, Lothar is the author of 'Hidden Hitler' with ISBN 9780465043095 and ISBN 0465043097.