Kaiser Wilhelm, Krupp and major figures in business and the military, and among the German aristocracy were closeted gays.
Professor John C. G.-Rohl has described the Kaiser’s interest in men, particularly soldiers.
Rohl comments:
"It is indeed disturbing to reflect that the generals, who took Germany and Europe into the Armageddon of 1914, not infrequently owed their career to the Kaiser's admiration for their height and good looks in their splendid uniforms.
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