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Yorkshire investigators had followed up this author’s original questions regarding Kinsey’s association with Nazis and the possibility that some of the abused children were obtained from WWII Germany and/or Russia. At least one of Kinsey’s sex collaborators was a documented Nazi, the infamous George Sylvester Viereck, a convicted German spy who had worked among Washington D.C. power brokers. David Brinkley in his history of the period, Washington Goes to War (1988:26) wrote that Viereck was “one of the... masterminds of the propaganda cabinet that Germany set up here early in the war.” Yorkshire researchers flew to Berlin (as did this author), interviewing and digging through old files and press reports. There they discovered Dr. Friedrich Karl Hugo Viktor von Balluseck, who was tried in Berlin in 1957 for a child sex murder. According to Paul Gebhard who took over serving as the prestigious Director of Indiana University's Kinsey Institute, just after Kinsey's death: “[Kinsey] wrote him questions in the letter and they carried on quite a correspondence.... Police [seeking a child sex murderer] went through his possessions... found his correspondence with Kinsey.... They got Interpol.... The FBI put pressure on Kinsey to reveal the guy’s sexual diary. Kinsey said, absolutely not. [T]he poor paedophile... had his reputation destroyed... finally quit corresponding with us.”
Like Kinsey, fascist scientists in Germany92 believed that they had a right to experiment on anyone. Dr. von Balluseck93 was an incest offender who raped and sodomized not only his own offspring, but Jewish, Polish, and German children as well, from roughly 1927 to 1957. The German press reported Kinsey’s visit to Frankfort during his world tour in 1956. Little else is available regarding the German stopover, or if Kinsey met with Balluseck, and there was no mention of Kinsey's visit to Frankfort in the approved writings about Kinsey’s European travels.
92. Max Weinreich, Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People, Yiddish Scientific Institute, Yivo, New York, 1946
93. A photocopy of Dr. von Balluseck's Nazi membership card, dated August 1, 1930, obtained from the German document center, is on file in the author's archive. Max Weinreich, Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People, Yiddish Scientific Institute,Yivo, New York, 1946
“THE MOST IMPORTANT PEDOPHILE IN THE CRIMINAL HISTORY OF BERLIN”
Dr. von Balluseck’s trial for the murder of 10-year-old Loiselotte Has, who was “found… naked and throttled… on a piece of wasteland,” was widely covered in Germany. It was “completely unprecedented in the moral history of the post war era,” and von Balluseck was described as “the most important pedophile in the criminal history of Berlin.” Kinsey collaborator Balluseck was tried for the abuse of 50, or “more than 100,” or ”several hundred” children. As noted, he had sexually violated children for “over the last three decades” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 22, 1957).
News of Kinsey’s role in the case was splashed across the headlines of Germany’s largest newspapers. Judge Heinrich Berger “emphasized again and again the important function played by the press in warning the public against paedophiles like Balluseck, who approach children as understanding friends and helpers in their sexual need” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 22, 1957). Despite Alfred Kinsey’s shocking role in the explosive case, the U.S. press was uniformly silent about it.
According to Yorkshire Television’s research department, from 1942 to 1944 Dr. von Balluseck was the Department of Justice District Kreishauptmina, the commandant of the small Polish town of Jedrzejow. It was there that he targeted the children he sexually assaulted, warning them, according to German news accounts, that “It is either the gas chamber or me.” The Encyclopedia Judaica 94 reports that all Jedrejow Jews ended up in the gas chambers. All, including the children, were under the control of Dr. von Balluseck.
94. The Encyclopedia Judaica, Keter Publishing, Vol. 9, 1972, p. 1310-1311.
The German press described early attempts to “cover up” who Balluseck really was, including efforts to keep his photograph under wraps and the court description of the influential attorney as a “shop-worker.” And commenting on the experiments recorded in volumes found in von Balluseck’s desk, Judge Berger exclaimed: “This is no longer human! What was this all for? To tell Kinsey about?” (Morgenpost, May 16, 1957). The following articles appeared on Page One of every major German newspaper in May, 1957. Although Alfred Kinsey was then a household word in the United States, no American newspapers revealed that our nation’s sex expert—the pioneer of our current sex education model—was writing, encouraging and guiding a German Nazi pedophile as he sexually abused innocent children. Here are additional excerpts from German press accounts:
“…He [Balluseck] had close contact with the so-called American sex researcher, Kinsey, to whom he’d repeatedly & explicitly reported his perverse crimes. Balluseck had also described those in pedantic detail in his diaries.” [Ausschnitt, May 5, 1957]
“Today the court has got four diaries, and in these diaries, with cynicism and passion, he recorded his crimes against 100 children in the smallest detail. He sent the detail of his experiences regularly to the US sex researcher, Kinsey. The latter was very interested and kept up a regular and lively correspondence with Balluseck” [National-Zeitung, May 15, 1957]
“Balluseck’s diaries were read out yesterday–“Reports on his Successes” to Kinsey. The first day of the big sex crimes trial of 48-year-old Regierungsrat dr FvB ended yesterday with a banging of a fist.…Berger shouted, “I’ve had enough!” and slammed the diaries shut, in which [Balluseck] had recorded with pedantic and embarrassing accuracy all his misdeeds. Balluseck is charged with 33 counts of indecent acts (Unzucht) with minors or of having made them endure indecent acts. The trial before the JSK is scheduled to last three days. The trial is closed to the public because of the danger to public decency. Instead… full of journalists…Expressionless and with fixed gaze his eyes wander around the room. He answers in a quiet and monotonous voice. Balluseck remains calm, even when the voice of the judge reading from the diaries becomes louder. “Ach, no one here understands,” he said at one point. The question emerges again and again: What was going on in the mind of this person, who as lawyer and Akademiker (educated man) must have realized the import of his revolting deeds. He repeatedly quotes from the bible and Rilke. Even as a child he was already interested in questions of sex. The defendant said, “Since I was 14 I have been concerned with establishing ideals of purity.” Then in a kind of scientific fervor (Forschungsdrang) he wanted to “test” himself and the children. The presiding judge asked what he as a lawyer thinks about this. Balluseck: “The juridical issue only concerned me at a theoretical level. What I could justify morally, could not be something impure. I felt obligated to help the children, to spare them a sense of guilt.” Monstrous one entry depicting his “experience” with a girl of eleven. “That is mad!” exclaimed the presiding judge–himself father of four children. Balluseck’s surprising answer: “It appears logical to me.” …The court is silent, holds its breath, as an entry from Balluseck’s diary is read out in which he describes in great detail how he coupled (verkuppelte) his fourteen-year-old daughter with a Hilfßchüler (remedial school student) two years her senior. Von Balluseck sent a comprehensive report on his “successes” and the reactions of the 16-year-old to the American “sex researcher” Kinsey. The presiding judge concluded that to read this all is not just a psychic/psychological burden but a torment, and, visibly shaken, adjourned the court. The trial continues today.” [Ausschnitt, May 15, 1957]
“Dr. von Balluseck reported his perverse misdeeds repeatedly and extensively to the American so-called sexual psychologist Kinsey. That was revealed during the afternoon of the first day of the trial of the sex criminal. Balluseck wrote to the American about how he abused his niece encountering “hardly any serious resistance.” He reported also the seduction of 15 small girls and 5 boys between 1952 and 1954 as well as numerous “failed attempts to make contact.” Despite these compromising communiques, the American Kinsey did not think it necessary to tell the police (Anzeige erstatten) about the sex criminal. In the course of the hearings, Balluseck’s abuse of his own daughter and a 14-year-old Hilfßchüler was also addressed. The criminal had first abused them separately, then coupled them with each other for his own selfish perverse ends. The presiding judge of the criminal court, Dr. Berger, commented: “You virtually gave the boy instructions on how to seduce girls!” Unmoved, the defendant justified himself with casuistic arguments and what he called a theory of purity. He said he wanted to test himself and the children. When asked by the judge if he regretted his actions, he gave an evasive answer. After a lengthy reading from Balluseck’s diaries, Dr. Berger exclaimed: “This is no longer human! What was this all for? To tell Kinsey about?” When asked by the judge why he even abused girls of 8 and 9, Balluseck retorted, he attained his goal more quickly with the younger ones, while the older ones often repelled him. In the course of the hearing, such horrible things were revealed that the participants in the trial breathed a sigh of relief when the trial was adjourned until Wednesday morning.” [Morgenpost, May 15, 1957]
“[N]ot only did he commit his crimes in Germany, but also during the war as an occupation officer, he committed numerous sexual crimes against Polish girls of between 10 & 14 years old.” [Der Morgen, May 15, 1957]
“The Nazis knew and gave him the opportunity to practice his abnormal tendencies in occupied Poland on Polish children, who had to chose between Balluseck and the gas ovens. After the war, the children were dead, but Balluseck lived. Today the court has got four diaries.... In the diaries, described as volume 1 & 4, he described with pedantic exactness, how he committed his crimes against 100 children.….Balluseck had close contact with the so called American sex researcher, Kinsey, to whom he’d repeatedly and explicitly reported his perverse crimes. Balluseck had also described those in pedantic detail in his diaries.” [National-Zeitung, May 15, 1957]
“…In 33 cases they asked the children to come and be a witness against him in court, but because the accused in hid diaries had explained things so clearly, and because he didn’t deny the charges, it wasn’t necessary. …What came out of these diaries was indescribable; not only was it incomprehensible how Balluseck made the children comply with him, but what was also incomprehensive is that he had no feeling of shame–and no less comprehensive was the relaxed attitude with which he went to portray that it was nothing out of the ordinary. …Refers to 1949, Balluseck abused a 10 year old boy. The boy was recently sent down for youth punishment, under Paragraph 175 (homosexuality). The boy admitted that it was because of Balluseck, that he had taken that path. The only reply of the accused to this, was that the boy in question had already had experience in that area before he met Balluseck. …During his lessons, when he was with relatives, friends, on public transport, in the street, in playgrounds & fairgrounds, in front of shop windows & in swimming pools, Balluseck sought ‘contact’. He had a sexual lesson ‘after class’ with 3 girls, and he even asked prostitutes to send little girls to him, but they refused to do it. He made statistics of all these experiences and he sent them with comprehensive reports to the American sex research, Kinsey. In one reply, which apart from a “thank you,” contained the warning “Sehen Sie sich vor”–‘be careful’ (or ‘watch out’). Balluseck cut out the signature from this letter, and stuck it in his diary. …Like little girls who run after film stars, and call for their autographs, this so-called expert should have made sure the accused was put behind bars because of his smutty writings. [Tagespiegel, May 16, 1957]
“Kinsey had asked the paedophile specifically for material of his perverse actions. The presiding judge, Dr. Berger noted that it was Kinsey’s duty to get Balluseck locked up, instead of corresponding with him.” [Berliner Zeitung, May 16, 1957]
“He made statistics of all these experiences and he sent them with comprehensive reports to the American sex researcher, Kinsey. In one reply, which apart from a “thank you,” contained the warning “be careful” (or “watch out”). Balluseck cut out the signature from this letter, and stuck it in his diary.” [TGSP, May 16, 1957]
“Sharp criticism of American sex researcher by presiding judge of the “Grosse Jugendschutzkammer,” Landgerichtsdireck-tor Heinrich Berger. Because of the correspondence between Regierungersat Dr. FVB, accused of many counts of SKV, and Kinsey. The presiding judge exclaimed, “Instead of answering his sordid letters (Schmierigkeiten), the strange American scholar should rather have made sure that Mister von Balluseck was put behind bars… As reported yesterday, during his training as a religion teacher, Balluseck made the acquaintance of a vicar (Gemmeindepfarrer). The defendant complained about his quarters; the vicar subsequently got him a flat in the (Gemeindehaus) community center, but in fact it was where the vicar (Keusch) lived. Balluseck said, “As a church official I was preferable to the unchurchly previous tenant.” The confidence shown him did not prevent the defendant from seducing forthwith the 11-year old son of the vicar and making him familiar with the most vile practices. The boy had to keep an exact record of his indecent activities, Ballesecuk then sent these, his victim’s data to Kinsey. Presiding judge: “I have the impression you often only approached the children in order to be able to assert yourself [??] (auftrumpfen) vis-a-via Kinsey and to provide him material.” Defendant: “Kinsey himself had asked me to do so.” Presiding judge: “That would be typical of Kinsey and his work. It must be a strange scholar who relies on first-hand reports with such disgusting contents.” Defendant (soothingly/appeasingly): “Well, Kinsey is dead.” For Balluseck. (Lawyer) Balluseck was proud of his correspondence with the American sex researcher; evidence is that he cut out the name Kinsey out of a letter the latter sent him and stuck it in his diary. The discussion of other cases/counts revealed that Balluseck used any and every opportunity to make new victims submit to him. On walks, at swimming pools, in front of shop windows, in trams, even during a trip through the St. Gotthard Tunnel, he approached children under the guise of being a friendly and concerned elderly gentleman. He gave three of his students at a Hilfßchüle a lesson in sex education disguised as a lesson in religion (Nachhilfuenterricht = private lessons), which ended in an indecent game of forfeits. He asked so-called madams he knew to procure him little girls. But these “ladies” had a greater sense of responsibility than the Regierungsrat. They rejected his unreasonable request. A ten-year-old boy whom the defendant had abused in 1949 was so corrupted by this treatment that he sought the company of other men, for which he was punished. Again yesterday, Balluseck made no serious attempt to deny his deeds. Therefore the court, fortunately, did not have to question the young witnesses. The trial continues tomorrow with the presentation of the medical (i.e. forensic) report.” [Morgenpost, May 16, 1957]
“…also during the war he was a Nazi Occupational Officer in Poland, and he abused 10-12 year old girls.…Balluseck’s career catapulted because he was a fanatical member of the Nazi party.…During the war he was in the infamous civil administration of the occupation in Poland. By force they took millions of Polish nationals to Germany (for slave labor). …After 1945, Balluseck went underground as a casual laborer, but a few years later, he was working in several West Berlin schools as a religious teacher. In 1954 he was “de-nazified”. He also appears to have been employed as some sort of legal advisor to the Protestant Church Association. (evangleischen Kirche von Brandenburg). At the beginning of the trial, this horrible person sang praises to the moral and ethical collapse signs in the USA, which he followed after 1945.As a role model for his perverse actions, Balluseck named the works of the so called sexual psychologist Kinsey, who’s out pourings are the highest example of the moral decay of the Imperial World and especially in the USA.…Judge Berger: “I had the impression that you got to the children in order to impress Kinsey and to deliver him material.” Balluseck: “Kinsey himself asked me for that [asked me to do so]” As a role model for his perverse actions Balluseck named the so-called sexual psychologist Kinsey.... In his defense speech, the accused continually used phrases such as “a holy problem” (“heliges Proglem”), and “eithical world order” (“sittliche Weltord-nung”) and “religious, sexual ideal purity” (“religios-sexuelles Reinheitsideal”) etc. …The presiding Judge was so shocked, that when it came to reading extracts from Balluseck’s dirty diaries, he stated several times “it is painful to have to read all this” …(“Es ist eine Qual, das alles verlessen zu mussen).…Balluseck could only pursue his crimes unpunished in the last few years, because of well meaning support by the Senate who helped him again to such an prominent position, although the crimes during the war in Poland [abuse of children]had been an ‘open secret’. Already in 1955 somebody started proceedings against him for the seduction of a minor. But on the 13 August, 1955 the proceedings were stopped, after the official, came to the conclusion that she was fantasizing/had a vivid imagination. (“phantasiebegabt”). In 1954, this serial offender, along with several other prominent Nazis, moved into the “Schonenberger” Rathas (i.e. he was made an official again – the implication here is that SDP or Communist officials who were put into power by the allies because they were against the Nazis, lost their jobs and were replaced by Nazis). But the patronage of the council for this “sittenstroich” (pervert) went even further, at the end of 1956, when his diaries were accidentally discovered and Balluseck was arrested, the Senate suspended him from his duties but carried on paying him half his salary. Not only did Balluseck make a lot of young people unhappy, but the parents ‘were allowed’, with their taxes, to generously support the criminal. The trial continues… [Neues Deustschland, May 17, 1957]
“The connection with Kinsey, towards whom he’d showed off his crimes, had a disastrous effect on [von Balluseck]... [I]n his diaries he’d stuck in the letters from the sex researcher, Kinsey in which he’d been encouraged to continue his research.... He had also started relationships… to expand his researches. One shivers to think of the lengths he went to.” [TSP, May 17, 1957, emphasis added]
“...The Nazis knew and gave him the opportunity to practise his abnormal tendencies in occupied Poland on Polish children, who had to choose between Balluseck and the gas oven. After the war, the children were dead, but Balluseck lived. ...He showed himself naked to girls in his West Berlin apartment, and he seduced his own daughter to unnatural acts, and his niece who came very often from Potsdam to visit them, got the same treatment. One of the school boys he used homosexually and who later offered his services to other men, got arrested, and related to the police how Balluseck taught him everything....even the most hardened court reporters were warned “even if you think the worst, it is still not as bad as the reality... In a warehouse, Balluseck sexually abused a seven-year-old girl, whose father alerted the Stumm-Polizei. The investigation showed that the girl had a very vivid imagination and that poor Balluseck was merely a victim of this childish intrigue, because the Stumm-Polizei deduced that someone in his position, especially a 131er doesn't do anything like that. ...That was irresponsibility of the worst kind. Instead of protecting the Berger and his children from sexual criminals, the West Berlin Police as ever, shields the Senate from embarrassing scandal.... Today the court has got four diaries, and in these diaries, with cynicism and passion, he recorded his crimes against 100 children in the smallest detail. He sent the detail of his experiences regularly to the US sex researcher, Kinsey. The latter was very interested, and kept up a regular and lively correspondence with Balluseck, who cut out Kinsey's signature and stuck it neatly in his diary. The expert Dr. Weiman told the court there was no evidence of mental illness in the accused, and because of that, the prosecutor (Krause) applied for 12 years top security prison and 8 years loss of civil rights, after which he should be sent to an institution. When he heard that, the accused reacted with an animal scream. ...After a break of a few hours, the verdict came, and the public protested. Instead of the justifiable proposition that Krause made, the court must be Senate friendly, decided to treat the most horrible criminal in post-war times, with kid gloves, and it used them to half the recommendations—6 years jail and 5 years loss of civil rights while in there, and then go into an institution. Balluseck breathed a sigh of relief at this incomprehensibly light sentence. ...This 100 times child molester has unquestionably deserved a much harder verdict. The law was on the side of the client, and didn't see in him a dangerous sexual criminal, but saw in him the Reigunstrat... who represented the Senate. What remains is arse-licking to the top and a hit in the face of the parents of more than 100 molested working-class children.” [Morgenpost, May 19, 1957]
“Dr. Balluseck... [recorded measurements] of his crimes committed against children between 9 and 14 years old… in four thick diaries… of a pseudo-scientific character... while in correspondence with the American sexual researcher Kinsey... about his research results which as he said himself, took place over three decades.” [Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 22, 1957]
“The (Vernehmugen) trial (investigation?) of the 49 year old Balluseck for the “Sittenpolizei” (Special branch of police that deals with sex crimes) ended yesterday, and all the trial papers will go to the “Staatsanwattschaft” (Public Prosecutor). The Kriminalpolizei (Dept for crime) says Balluseck is fully responsible for his crimes against children.... Balluseck... corresponded with the American Kinsey Institute for some time, and had also got books from them which dealt with child sexuality.” [Tagespiegel, October 1, 1957]
So Balluseck was not only sending Kinsey his old child abuse data, recorded during his days as a Commandant in Jedrzejow; he was also seeking to “continue” and “expand” his sexual seduction of children for Kinsey’s use.
The University of Indiana press office regularly forwards international articles about the school (especially those containing damaging information) to the administration. According to Paul Gebhard, the University and its president, Herman Wells, were aware of Kinsey’s collaboration with Balluseck. Kinsey refused to provide evidence that the FBI knew he had regarding Balluseck’s crimes.
After serving his sentence for child sex abuse (he was not convicted on the murder charge), Balluseck continued his correspondence with Gebhard, while the latter indignantly protested that this “poor pedophile” had trouble obtaining a job after his release from prison.
During a seminar on The Ethics of Sex Research (Masters, Johnson & Kolodny, 1972), Gebhard told the assembled sexology “experts” that it was ethical to use Balluseck’s child data. None registered disagreement, nor did any protest when Gebhard revealed how the Kinsey team had covered up for the erstwhile Nazi. “We [were] amoral at best and criminal at worst…. An example of our criminality is our refusal to cooperate with authorities in apprehending a pedophile we had interviewed who was being sought for a [child] sex murder.”95
95. Masters, Johnson, and Kolodny, Ed., Ethical Issues in Sex Therapy and Research, Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1977, p. 13.
The sort of conjecture that enabled the Yorkshire researchers to uncover Balluseck’s connection to Kinsey seems once again in order. Were some of Kinsey’s 317 to 2,035 boys and girls mentioned in the Male and Female volumes exterminated in Treblinka? Were sexually abused and murdered children included in the records that Balluseck “repeatedly and explicitly” mailed to Kinsey? If so, these war-crime “data” have been used by psychopathic sexual revolutionaries to uproot American laws and culture.
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