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60 The Homosexual Roots of <strong>the</strong> Nazi Party<br />
<strong>the</strong> Judeo-Chris tian sex ual ethic, <strong>the</strong> Maccabees did not<br />
van quish Greek phi los o phy as a ri val so cial force. Of <strong>the</strong><br />
two ir rec on cil able be lief sys tems, <strong>the</strong> Judeo-Christian one<br />
would pre vail, al low ing <strong>the</strong> de vel op ment of what we know<br />
to day as West ern cul ture; yet Hel le nism sur vived.<br />
Adolf Brand and <strong>the</strong> “Com mu nity of <strong>the</strong> Elite”<br />
One of <strong>the</strong> ear li est lead ers of <strong>the</strong> mas cu line ho mo sex ual<br />
counter- movement in Ger many, him self a Hel le nist, was<br />
Adolf Brand. In 1896, one year bef ore Mag nus Hirsch feld<br />
formed <strong>the</strong> Scientific- Humanitarian Com mit tee, young<br />
Adolf Brand be gan pub lish ing <strong>the</strong> world’s first ho mo sex ual<br />
se rial pub li ca tion,<br />
Der Ei gene (“The<br />
Elite”). [The word<br />
Eigene, eye'- geneh,<br />
can be roughly<br />
trans lated “queer,”<br />
which may shed<br />
some light on <strong>the</strong><br />
deri va tion of this<br />
term in Eng lish, but<br />
we have cho sen <strong>the</strong><br />
trans la tion used<br />
most of ten by his to -<br />
ri ans be cause it em -<br />
pha sizes <strong>the</strong> elit ist<br />
phi loso phy of Der<br />
Eigene's au thors.]<br />
Be sides be ing<br />
mili tantly prohomosexual,<br />
Der<br />
Eigene was rac ist,<br />
Cover of Der Eigene mag a zine.<br />
na tion al is tic and