The sexuality of Adolf Hitler , dictator of Nazi Germany from to , has long been a matter of historical and scholarly debate, as well as speculation and rumour. There is evidence that he had relationships with a number of women during his lifetime, as well as evidence of his antipathy to homosexuality , and no evidence of homosexual encounters.
His name has been linked to a number of possible female lovers, two of whom committed suicide. A third died of complications eight years after a suicide attempt, and a fourth also attempted suicide.
Hitler created a public image of a celibate man without a domestic life, dedicated entirely to his political mission and the governance of Nazi Germany. His relationship with Eva Braun , which lasted nearly 14 years, was hidden from the public and all but his inner circle.
Hitler and Braun married in late April , less than 40 hours before committing suicide together. Two wartime reports by the Allies attempted to analyse Hitler psychologically. A report by Walter C. Langer for the U. Office of Strategic Services OSS describes Hitler as having repressed homosexual tendencies and opined that he was an impotent coprophile.
Psychologist Henry Murray wrote a separate psychoanalytical report for the OSS in that drew similar conclusions. Otto Strasser , one of Hitler's opponents in the Nazi Party , also told his post-war interrogators a similar story.
