ABSTRACT
The Nazis held extremely strong, inflexible, and erroneous views on human sexuality. In Nazi ideology, there reigned an absolute distinction between male and female, an inviolable division of sexual roles, and an unassailable hierarchy of men over women. Both the SS and the Wehrmacht availed themselves of a variety of experts in confronting the problems generated by their political and military reliance on human beings much more complicated in their sexuality than the prevailing ideology could allow. The attitude of German physicians toward homosexuality was also conditioned by their scientific conviction that it was an analyzable and treatable disorder. The Nazi regime expanded the laws against homosexuality and sent thousands of homosexuals to their deaths in concentration camps. The SS was especially concerned with issues of sexuality, procreation, and "perversion." Aside from such individual involvements, the Matthias Heinrich Goring Institute was also connected with SS projects on the related problems of procreation and homosexuality.
