Writing some 30 years after the collapse of the Third Reich, the sociologist Klaus Theweleit suggested that the men of the Freikorps--the right-wing paramilitaries that sprang up in the wake of WWI--were motivated more than anything by a fear and distaste of women and their growing participation in society. Many of them would go on to form the nexus of the future Nazi Party, including SS chief Heinrich Himmler; his rival Ernst Röhm, the head of the Storm Troopers and a closeted homosexual; and Rudolf Höss, who would eventually become commandant of Auschwitz.