The Wild Boys

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After reading an article I am posting here, I believe American author William Burroughs had been inspired to write his novel, The Wild Boys, by actual gangs of self described wild boys in Germany's Weimar era, and into the Nazi dictatorship. Adolescent boys, traumatized by Germany's defeat and the following economic collapse, who had been outsiders due to the homosexuality shared by many of them, took to the forests outside Berlin and other cities to live as robbers, and often committing rape. When Hitler came to power, some were co-opted into Nazism, while others were sent to concentration camps. But those remaining became stalwart Anti-Nazis who often brawled with the Hitler Youth and Brown Shirts, and sang songs glorifying their fight against fascism. Burroughs' wild boys were gay antifascists fighting a military-industrial complex. I just can't not see the similarities.

https://crimereads.com/the-wild-boy-gan ... ar-berlin/