However, the review, written by Walter Reich, a psychiatrist and former director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, also concedes that "though Machtan doesn't succeed in proving that Hitler was an active homosexual, he does demonstrate that his life, in both the personal and the political spheres, was suffused with homosexual themes and personalities.
Despite not definitively proving Hitler's active homosexuality, Walter Reich, a psychiatrist and former director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, acknowledges that Machtan's research reveals a pervasive presence of homosexual themes and individuals in Hitler's life.