Left-wing journalists outed Adolf Hitler's closest ally Ernst Röhm in 19. In 1928, Kurt Hiller argued that it would be permissible to out a member of a cabinet preparing an anti-homosexual law, arguing: 'Our solidarity with the homosexuals of all classes and political viewpoints extends very far but it does not include traitors to their own cause.'
Many activists of the first homosexual movement denounced outing as 'the way over corpses'. Harden's accusations incited other journalists to follow suit, including Adolf Brand, founder of Der Eigene. Left-wing journalists opposed to Kaiser Wilhelm II's policies outed a number of prominent members of his cabinet and inner circle-and by implication the Kaiser-beginning with Maximilian Harden's indictment of the aristocratic diplomat Prince Eulenburg. The Eulenburg affair of 1907–1909 was the first public outing scandal of the twentieth century. See also: Krupp affair, Eulenburg affair, and Röhm scandal
