I'm sure the Krauts were totally blue-balled when they couldn't call Grenell an Ernst Rohm.

The Nazis were literally the concoction of fat gays with an Adonis fetish.

Read up on Ernst Rohm. That's where the conservative gay trope came from, among other things about the history of the Nazi Party, and why Hitler specifically went after the German gay community where they used to specifically recruit from there.