LoL @ the Hitler fanboys that try so hard to defend Hitler's "name".
Hitler's reputation has already been in the gutter with him being a co-leader in the Holocaust and trying to kill entire groups of people that were considered "undesirables" or "inferiors", speculation about his sexuality and private life won't affect his reputation significantly either way because it is already abysmal with people that aren't completely disconnected with reality. But it does reveal some interesting things about the people that try so hard to defend him on this forum: That the Ray Peat Forum attracts all kinds of wacky people and this thread is drawing fascist types and Nazi-sympathizers who defend Adolf Hitler and his ilk.
Many people come to this forum and stay because they realise the "truth" that they've been fed about health and other subjects, is not the whole truth and often has significant omissions, and in other cases is outright lies. Look at the case of Ancel Keys with his vilification of saturated fats in heart disease. Just omit the data that doesn't fit your narrative and feed your beautifully crafted narrative to a system that doesn't ask enough questions.
The same could be true for Hitler. What makes you think we have the whole truth about him? We have all been fed a carefully crafted narrative that suits a particular agenda. I don't agree with many of his actions, but I'm not naive enough to think we know all the facts.
I think he will always have defenders and draw sympathisers because of his stance against the Jews and the Communist agitators in pre-WW II Germany (many of whom were Jews) and the direction they were trying to take that society. Do I agree with the way he handled it? NO. I DO NOT. But was he wrong for wanting to make Germany a better place for its people and rid it of some of the Marxist/Communist movements that were trying to take it in another direction? The same is happening on the streets of the USA at present. You have crazy people that won't be reasoned with and refuse to operate through the normal political process and want to hijack it and seize power to re-shape the nation in the image they feel it should be. What do you do with people like that? How do you appease them? How do you reason with them? They got their way in Russia and look what happened. They didn't get their way in Germany but that was only because of the rise of Hitler.