Lest we forget the forest for the trees: from the article that Smokey cites:
But if "Voluptuous Panic" enhances Weimar Berlin's reputation as a 20th century Sodom and Gomorrah unlike any other, its author does take issue with the popular notion that the era's dissolution led inevitably to the rise of the Nazis and Hitler's appointment as Reichschancellor in 1933.
"The reality is that Hitler came to power for all kinds of magical reasons. Hitler's nationalist partners brought Hitler into government to humiliate the Nazis and prove they couldn't govern, and the opposite happened. If you look at the week-by-week or day-by-day description of how the Nazis came to power, it had nothing at all to do with the social life of Berlin. It had to do with all these economic factors and political maneuverings that even the Nazis couldn't foresee," Gordon says.
"It was important to me to disprove this idea that decadence leads to fascism," he continues. "It's a very puritanical American equation, that if you have a good time there's some awful aftermath. But it's factually and historically not true. At the time, no one made the connection, and no historian has shown this to be the case."
This is what red-pillars do. They pull snippets of stuff together and hope the rest of us won't look at the whole picture. It's true that Germany experienced an avalanche of sexual promiscuity following WWI. See E. Mowrer, Germany Puts Back the Clock, 197-199.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dl ... /page/n239 Bryant quotes snippets from Mowrer to emphasize decadence, but leaves out the bits that show a broader context. For example, he leaves out Mowrer's observation that the women were more aggressive in the increased promiscuity. He also leaves out Mowrer's observation that "The atmosphere was not so much vicious as sexually casual."
Even more interesting, Mowrer addresses Smokey's disingenuous meme. In describing the attitude toward "sexual previsions," he says: "An agitation was started that would make perversions
that did not entail the seduction or abuse of minors a purely private matter."[Emphasis added.]
Bryant adds his own anti-semitism to Mowrer's descriptions, blaming the Jews for Mowrer's description of broad trends at the time. But even he doesn't try and connect the Jews with child prostitution -- Smokey does that by putting Bryant's recollection of child prostitution together with Jewish ownership of cabarets, when they appear in Bryant's book in completely separate paragraphs. And he goes even further by conflating transgender folks with pedophiles.
So, it's absolutely false that all (any??) historians attribute the rise of Hitler to changes in sexual mores after WWI. And the notion that non-heterosexuals deserve to be arrested, thrown in concentration camps, and/or killed should be repugnant to any civilized human.
Tell you what, Smokey. Why don't you start by getting the kiddy diddler Bishops away from the LDS youth. When you get that done, you can worry about Drag Queen story time.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951