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''The Hidden Hitler'' is the English-language version of the 2001 book ''Hitlers Geheimnis. Das Doppelleben eines Diktators'' (''Hitler's Secret: The Double Life of a Dictator'') by German-Jewish professor and historian Dr. Lothar Machtan. The original book was published in Germany by Alexander Fest Verlag, while the English-translated version was published by Basic Books in New York City. (ISBN 0-465-04308-9) The book discusses Adolf Hitler's sexuality. Machtan argues that Hitler was a closeted homosexual. Among the evidence, it cites the allegedly homoerotic nature of his friendship with August Kubizek during Hitler's youth in Vienna. The question of Hitler's homosexuality is also raised in Walter C. Langer's work ''The Mind of Adolf Hitler'' and in Waite's psychoanalytic history ''The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler''. However, most scholars dismiss these claims and believe Hitler was heterosexual.〔Andrew Nagorski. ''Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power''. New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 81.〕〔Ian Kershaw (2008). ''Hitler: A Biography''. W. W. Norton & Company, pp. 22-23, 219.〕〔Anton Joachimsthaler (1999) (). ''The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends – The Evidence – The Truth''. Brockhampton Press, p. 264.〕 ==Industry reviews== ''The New York Times Book Review (12/16/01) - "... ''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. To interpret evidence his way, Machtan employs innuendo and insinuation ..." However, the review (by Walter Reich, a psychiatrist and former director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) also concedes that "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." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Hidden Hitler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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