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The former Russian intelligence agency, KGB released to the New York Times a secret that had been lurking in its files for half a century: to wit, that Rudolf Hess, Hitler's top aide, was homosexual and Hitler knew it. The KGB file says that Hess was known as Black Bertha "in the homosexual milieu he frequented in Berlin much to the displeasure of his Fuhrer." I believe the Times means that Hitler was displeased that Hess hung out in the homosexual milieu, not that he was known as Black Bertha. After seeing the Times article, Hess's son Wolf, wrote a letter to the editor denying that his father was homosexual. Wolf did not exactly help his case by reporting that his father was also known as Fraulein Anna. In The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L Shirer ranks Hess as Hitler's "closest personal confidant, the deputy leader of the Nazi party, the second in line to succeed him..., the man who had been his devoted and fanatically loyal follower since 1921 and, since [Ernst] Roehm's murder, the nearest there was to a friend...."

Roehm was also homosexual.

Hitler dictated part of his Mein Kampf to Hess.