NAPOLEON - GAY NAZI?

Napoleon kissing friend.

Napoleon

Napoleon liked young men.

Andrew Roberts, at The Telegraph, 26 October 2005, reviewed:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/11/03/bohib03.xml

'Napoleon: His Wives and Women' by Christopher Hibbert

According to Roberts, Hibbert's book is really an investigation into Napoleon's remark (made on St Helena): "Bah! Women! When you don't think of them you don't need them."

Hibbert finds that Napoleon "displayed homosexual tendencies".

Frank Richardson once wrote a book entitled 'Napoleon: Bisexual Emperor', which received little attention.

Hibbert, however, is Britain's most popular historian and his book has received more publicity.

Hibbert 'presents a Napoleon who announces that he feels physical attraction to handsome men "in the loins and in another place which shall be nameless".

Napoleon promoted and stared at attractive young men.

Hibbert suggests that the effeminate Chevalier de Sainte Croix may have been Napoleon's lover.

Napoleon is also accused of fancying his servants, Louis Constant and Roustam Raza.



Napoleon - the first fascist in modern European history.

Napoleon ordered thousands of prisoners to be killed with the bayonet.

In 1799 Napoleon was in the Middle east. He took 2,000 prisoners in Gaza. At Jaffa 3,000 defenders surrendered to the French on condition that their lives would be spared.

Once in possession of Jaffa, Napoleon ordered the execution of all the prisoners from Jaffa and most of those from Gaza.

To save bullets and gunpowder, Napoleon ordered his men to bayonet or drown the prisoners. There were reports of soldiers wading out to sea to finish off terrified women and children.

Bresler, Fenton. Napoleon III: A Life.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1999. ISBN 0-7867-0660-0 (pp. 235-245).
Dale, Rodney. The Tumour in the Whale.
London: Duckworth, 1978. ISBN 0-7156-1314-6 (p. 36).
McLynn, Frank. Napoleon: A Biography.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-55970-631-7 (p. 189).

The Telegraph refers to Claude Ribbe's new book on Napoleon:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/26/wfra26.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/26/ixworld.html

Napoleon's genocide 'on a par with Hitler'

By Colin Randall in Paris(Filed: 26/11/2005)



A French historian has caused uproar by claiming Napoleon provided the model for Hitler's Final Solution with the slaughter of more than 100,000 Caribbean slaves.

In The Crime of Napoleon, Claude Ribbe accuses the emperor of genocide, gassing rebellious blacks more than a century before the Nazis' extermination of the Jews.

His accusations refer to the extreme methods used to put down a ferocious uprising in Haiti at the start of the 19th century. Then known as San Domingo, the colony was considered a jewel of the French empire and to save it troops launched a campaign to kill all blacks aged over 12.

"In simple terms, Napoleon ordered the killing of as many blacks as possible in Haiti and Guadeloupe to be replaced by new, docile slaves from Africa," Ribbe said yesterday.

He said he had found accounts from officers who refused to take part in the massacres, especially the use of sulphur dioxide to kill slaves held in ships' holds.

His book is already provoking controversy prior to its publication on Thursday. The newspaper France Soir juxtaposed images of Napoleon and Hitler yesterday before asking: "Did Napoleon invent the Final Solution?"

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From the site of John Ray
http://jonjayray.netfirms.com/amerfasc.html

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: The first Fascist of modern history

Napoleon Bonaparte was the child and heir of the very first Leftist revolution, the French revolution, and he is to this day lauded as the man who took the "ideals" of the French revolution to the rest of Europe. Like all Leftist dictators, he preached the central Leftist myth of equality -- but did not practice it -- and built up around himself a cult of the leader that was very much the same as that built up around themselves by Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim Il Sung etc.

And, again like other Fascists, he took French nationalism and love of gloire to new heights. During his rule -- police state though it was -- he made the French feel that they were the greatest nation on earth. And the French died in their droves in furtherance of that myth -- just as Germans later died in their droves for Hitler. Mussolini may have invented the term but it was really Napoleon who was the first Fascist in modern European history.

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Napoleon..... Hitler...... the American military?