Pink Swastika (1998 publication) [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Str Sng Cmnctns Grp; 3rd edition
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964760932
• ISBN-13: 978-0964760936
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,300,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute crap., January 28, 2012

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Matt - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pink Swastika (1998 publication) (Paperback)

I wouldn't bother reading this tripe. It's in the same league as the garbage neo-nazis pump out in an attempt to deny the holocaust. These idiots are trying to shift blame from German bigots who hated Jews, homosexuals and most everyone else who didn't look and act just like them. The nazi's published books blaming everything on the Jews and here we are more than 80 years later with another hate group trying to blame the holocaust on homosexuals, at least they didn't try to pin it on the Jews I guess.

This book belongs in the alternate history fiction section with Harry Turtledove and Robert Conroy(they aren't hateful monsters like the authors of this book, they just write alternate history fiction that is actually enjoyable to read).

96 of 148 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars small facts wrong.. important facts..., December 24, 2008

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DB "dbri" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Pink Swastika (Paperback)

I was looking around on the web for information about Heydrich. Excerpts from 'the Pink Swastika' pop up in the search results. On further reading, however, it becomes a bit perplexing. The Pink Swastika states that Hitler was looking for someone to start up an SS intelligence service, and that Eberstein brought Heydrich to the attention of Hitler. The book cites Callum MacDonald's book as the source for this information.

But you can read that part of MacDonald's book on google books, that is not what it says. It says that Himmler was running the SS, Himmler was looking to start up the intelligence service, and Eberstein brought Heydrich to Himmler's attention. This is a small fact, possibly an honest mistake... but ...

There is also a document on the web called 'the annotated Pink Swastika', that describes this error, but also numerous other errors in the book. It also describes other instances where the book cites sources, but when you go and read those sources, the sources don't say what the Pink Swastika claims they say.

It would seem to indicate that these problems are not isolated typographical errors, but repeated misquoting and mis-citation of sources. I would be very careful when reading the Pink Swastika as a work of factual history....

81 of 126 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pink Swastika Shows How One Can Still Lie With "Facts", January 9, 2009

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Robert A. Crook (Pasadena, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pink Swastika (1998 publication) (Paperback)

To its credit (ONE star, as opposed to NO stars), Pink Swastika makes occassional accurate factual statements, but in order to reach its conclusions -- that Nazi Germany was somehow a plot brought about by masculine gay men -- it has to ingnore whole swatches of facts that counter the premise and elevates rumor to a level of fact (such as the old rumors that Hitler, Himmler, and Heydrich were closeted gays or bisexuals). Were some of the early Nazi's gay? You bet! Ernst Roehm was one of a handful of gay men who led the early party. However, the overwhelming, uncontrovertable evidence is that gay men and women were victims of the Nazis even if a handful participated in the persecution.

Pink Swastika may not be as outrageous as the Protocols of Zion, but it is from the same genre as Protocols. If one is to read the book, do so with heavy doses of skepticism and caution.