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CapriYoung boys were an interest for novelist Graham Greene, who made his home on Capri
Young boys were an interest for Emperor Tiberius, German industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp and many others who made their homes on Capri.
This island of satyrs has a licentious reputation.
Graham Greene of MI6
'For occasional homosexual adventures', novelist Graham Greene used to take young Italian boys to Villa Rossaio, his home on the island
(Source: Graham Greene, The Man Within, by Michael Shelden, publ.Heinemann.)
Graham Greene's The Third Man.
Greene's friend Doctor Elizabeth Moor confided in her friend Gitta Bittorf that the boys used to stay with Greene on Capri for one or two days.
And postman Attilo Scoppa found that Greene often had boys, aged 14-16, staying at Villa Rossaio.
People in the town of Anacapri told Scoppa "the boys came for sex."
Greene was sufficiently well liked by his fellow citizens to be given the title of Honorary Citizen of Anacapri.
Emperor Tiberius's Villa Jovis on Capri
Emperor Tiberius, who retired to Capri around 30 AD, is reported to have indulged in endless orgies with boy concubines.
It is said that the walls of his villa were covered with huge pornographic paintings.
According to some sources he enjoyed having mullet nibble his crumb-coated genitals as he relaxed in rock pools.
And he used to have his organ covered in milk
and honey so that babies would suckle his glans.
There were stories, put about by his enemies, that Tiberius had boys flung into the sea from the high cliffs beneath his villa.
One of the hundreds of boys who lived with Tiberius was Vitellius, who after working as catamite for Caligula, Claudius and Nero, became Emperor in 69 AD.
So they can't all have been flung from the cliffs.
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Krupp
Multimillionaire German industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854-1902) set up a comfortable 'palace' in a grotto on Capri, where he entertained underage Italian boys, mostly the sons of local fishermen.
Sex was performed to the accompaniment of a string quartet, and orgasms were celebrated with bursts of fireworks.
Krupp on Capri
When Krupp's wife heard rumours of what was going on, she went to the Kaiser, who had her put into an insane asylum.
The Krupp military-industrial empire was too vital to Germany.
However, the German press eventually found out about Krupp's activities, and printed the whole story, complete with photographs taken by Krupp himself inside the grotto.
Capri was where Oscar Wilde was reunited with Lord Alfred Douglas after being released from jail.
Noel Coward took the title of his song 'A Bar on the Piccola Marina' from the island's favourite meeting place for 'free spirits'.
Norman Douglas
Capri was home to paedophile Norman Douglas, who was Greene's best friend on the island in the late 1940's and early 1950's.
Norman Douglas was the author of 'South Wind' which captured the air of sensuality associated with Capri and Southern Italy.
Compton Mackenzie of MI6
Famous Scot, Compton Mackenzie, was apparently another boylover who fell for Capri.
He moved there with his wife in 1913 and remained about ten years.
Two of his books were set on Capri: 'Vestal Fire' and 'Extraordinary Women.'
According to biographers, he bought a small villa in the plain of Cetrella, 'where he used to hold his amorous encounters with young boys.'
In 1918, the arrival in Capri of a group of lesbians, gave Mackenzie the inspiration to write 'Extraordinary Women.'
The Famous Swede Axel Munthe wrote:
"I sprang from the Sorrento sailing-boat onto the little beach.
"Swarms of BOYS were playing about among the upturned boats or bathing their shining bronze bodies in the surf....."
Munthe's autobiographical "The History of S. Michele" was published for the first time in English in 1929.
Since then this book about Capri has been translated into many languages and is now among the most read books after the Bible.
It was in 1887 that Munthe decided to settle on Capri and work as the municipal doctor.
Munthe's first visit to Capri had been in 1884 at the time of a cholera outbreak in Naples.
As soon as he had landed on the island, he had fallen in love with the ruins of a little medieval chapel dedicated to S. Michele, surrounded by a large vineyard hiding the ruins of a Roman villa.
He decided to create his dream villa called San Michele and bought a whole mountain to make this possible. "My house must be open to the sun, to the wind, to the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light everywhere".
Munthe was a lover of the arts, a philanthropist, and a great lover of animals.
Fersen
Baron Fersen of Adeswarde, born in Paris in 1880 of a family of steel industrialists, was another lover of Capri.
On 10 June 1903, the day of Fersen's engagement to the Viscount of Moupeou's daughter, he was arrested on charges of gross indecency and corruption of young boys.
After that event he decided to take up permanent residence on his favourite island of Capri.
Here he rented Villa Certosella.
Just what are the attractions of Capri to the rich, the famous and the cognoscenti?
Gay names associated with Capri include Ezra Pound, Tennessee Williams, Jean Cocteau, Andre Gide...
Visitors to the island have included Leonardo DiCaprio, Lenin,Tom Cruise, Tommy Hilfiger and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
'Little Willie'. Wilhelm in 1863
Scandal erupted in Germany in 1907.
Various top people in the military and in the royal court were named as homosexuals.
Kaiser Wilhelm II's intimate friend, Prince Philip von Eulenberg, was put on trial.
(Professor John C. G.-Rohl "The Kaiser and his Court, Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany",1966)
Prince Philip von Eulenberg
A journalist called Harden claimed to have hard evidence of the Kaiser’s homosexuality.
During Kaiser Wilhelm's annual hunt in the Black Forest, the chief of the Military Directorate died of a heart attack 'while performing for the assembled guests in a tutu'.
Soon after, the Kaiser suffered a nervous breakdown.
Wilhelm and family
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."
Krupp on Capri
One of the Kaiser’s friends was Friedrich Alfred Krupp, owner of the steel and weapons business.
Krupp set up a comfortable 'palace' in a grotto on Capri, where he entertained underage Italian boys, mostly the sons of local fishermen.
Sex was performed to the accompaniment of a string quartet, and orgasms were celebrated with bursts of fireworks.
Krupp
In 1902, Italian newspapers threatened to expose Krupp as a homosexual.
Stories of orgies on Capri reached Germany.
Krupp's wife was put into a mental asylum.
An article entitled "Krupp in Capri" spilled the beans.
Krupp requested a meeting with his friend, Kaiser Wilhelm.
On the day he was to meet the emperor, November 22, 1902, Krupp was found dead in his home.
The circumstances of his death remain a mystery.
Wilhelm and various gay monarchs.
Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II has been unfairly blamed for causing World War I.
World War I was the most important event of the 20th Century.
Wilhelm II at Balmoral in Scotland
Wilhelm's mother was Victoria, Princess Royal, the eldest daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria.
Wilhelm had a high regard for Queen Victoria.
He wanted a large navy, which he said was targeted against Japan, not Britain.
Unfair propaganda. It was Britain that controlled most of the world.
But Wilhelm also made it clear that he wanted to help the poor.
Britain and France gang up on Germany
In 1904, Britain and France formed an alliance, against Germany.
This alliance was later joined by Russia.
In 1905, Wilhelm visited Tangier in Morocco, a country largely controlled by the French.
In a speech, Wilhelm made remarks in favour of Moroccan independence.
What brought an end, more or less, to Wilhelm's power in Germany was the Daily Telegraph affair of 1908.
Wihelm gave an interview to the London Daily Telegraph in which he implied that the French and Russians had tried to incite Germany to intervene in the Second Boer War.
He also said in the interview: "You English are mad, mad, mad as March hares."
In Germany, there were calls for Wilhelm to abdicate, and Wilhelm "lost much of the influence he had previously exercised in domestic and foreign policy."
In Germany, there were calls for Wilhelm to abdicate, and Wilhelm "lost much of the influence he had previously exercised in domestic and foreign policy."
(Cecil, Lamar (1989), Wilhelm II: Prince and Emperor, 1859–1900)
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand (top) was unpopular because he had married a Slav. The assassin Princip (right) was a Slav.
When the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in June 1914, Wilhelm hoped to avoid war.
Wilhelm went on his annual cruise of the North Sea on 6 July 1914.
Unfortunately the Austrian ministers and generals were determined to use force to take back control of Serbia, which they wrongly blamed for the assassination.
It is more likely that the Austrian elite, who hated the heir to the throne, had secretly helped the assassins.
Unfortunately the Austrian ministers and generals were determined to use force to take back control of Serbia, which they wrongly blamed for the assassination.
It is more likely that the Austrian elite, who hated the heir to the throne, had secretly helped the assassins.
An Austrian invasion of Serbia need not have sparked a World war.
Grey and Churchill who got us into World war II.
But certain people in Britain wanted a World War.
Unfortunately, the British government made it clear that they would support Russia, the friend of Serbia.
Russia would not have gone to war with Austria and its ally Germany if it had not had the support of Britain.
Russia began a general mobilisation of its military.
World War I had begun.
Churchill facing 'revolutionaries' in London in 1910.
It has been suggested that the British elite wanted a World War in order to:
(1) distract attention away from the rotten social conditions of the poor
(2) give Britain a chance to grab countries such as Iraq which had oil wealth
(3) weaken rival empires such as those of the Germans and Turks.
Gay pose from Wilhelm.
In July 1914, Wilhelm was in despair as he believed that Britain, and its allies France and Russia, had plotted to start the war as a way of destroying Germany.
Wilhelm had very limited influence during World War I.
(Craig, Gordon A, Germany 1866–1945.)
The Kaiser and one of his grandsons.
Wilhelm had mixed views on Hitler.
Wilhelm came to believe that British Freemasons and Jews had caused the two world wars, aiming at a world Jewish empire.
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Anonymous comments:
From "Under The Sign Of The Scorpion ", by Jüri Lina, Year 2002:
"It was revealed during the trial of Gavrilo Princip and Nedelko Cabrinovic, the assassins of Franz Ferdinand (the heir to the Austrian throne), that the French Masonic Organisation Grand Orient was behind the assassination plans, and not the Serbian Nationalist Organisation The Black Hand.
"This enormous provocation had been planned in Paris in 1912 at 16 Rue Cadets, the headquarters of Grand Orient.
"Nedelko Cabrinovic revealed in Court how the freemasons had sentenced Franz Ferdinand to death.
"He learned this from the freemason Ziganovic (it was he who gave the Jewish assassin Princip a Browning pistol).
"Princip was also a freemason.
"The sentence (i.e. the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo) was executed on the 28th of June 1914.
"Everything according to the stenographic report of the Court published in Alfred Mousset's book "L'Attentat de Sarajevo" , Paris, 1930."
