The head of the Nazi SA “brownshirt” paramilitary group was gay, appointed other gays to prominent Nazi SA positions & was so close to Hitler, he was the only person who called him by nicknames like “Adi” instead of “mein fuhrer”.

Hitler had long been privately aware that Röhm and his SA associates were homosexuals; in their defense Hitler had stated that “the SA are a band of warriors and not a moral institution”.