Scott Lively spent a good chunk of this year smearing gay people as Nazis while also claiming Nazis were gay. He served up another installment of that in his Oct. 21 WorldNetDaily column:
I am very close to finishing the 6th edition of “The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party,” which I am hoping will be well received by conservatives and the MAGA movement because it explains so much about how America was conquered by the LGBT armies who lurk behind every culture-war calamity we face. Germany was the pre-WWII dress rehearsal. America’s (continuing) post-war Cultural Marxist revolution is the main performance. And, of course, all those ugly facts of German history proving the Nazi Party was the creation of “Butch” male homosexuals, had to be suppressed in America or the leftists would never have succeeded. Thus, since its first edition in 1995 “The Pink Swastika” has been one of the all-time most “panned and banned” books in print despite, or rather because of, the strength of its documentation and analysis.
Today I want to expose the origin of the “Gay Holocaust” fraud that hid the shocking true history of the Nazi Party under a thick blanket of social-engineering mythology.
Lively turned a good part of his ire on Frank Rector’s book “The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals,” which he claimed had a “false narrative” — none of which he detailed in his column. Instead, he concluded by ranting:
This, then, was the origin of the “Gay Holocaust” fraud – begun as merely an exaggeration by an emotionally troubled man revising history to fit his own psychological profile – then institutionalized by the LGBT movement as a knowingly false but detailed revisionist school of “hidden history.” The now multi-layered fraud was then popularized nationally by a left-wing master propagandist with his own publishing company, creating a new sub-genre of Nazi history with massive potential for pro-LGBT social engineering and “sexual anarchy” at the expense of the prior marriage and family based order of civilization. And that’s how one of the most socially destructive historical revisionist efforts in world history began.
Rebutting that campaign of disinformation and reclaiming the truth about the Nazi relationship with homosexuality and homosexuals – to help restore the primacy of the natural family in society – is the purpose of my book, the soon-coming 6th edition of which will be a dramatic expansion upon the 4th edition (which is available here).
We’ve documented how Lively’s book was discredited almost immediately after it came out in 2013, laden with factual errors and undercut by the fact that Lively conducted no research into the relevant primary archival documents. It’s unclear what was actually changed between the various editions (and what happened to the 5th edition?), but it’s a sign of Lively’s shoddy research methods that he has to continually rewrite the book to fix various issues. Real historians rarely do that.