[5] At the time, BBC broadcasts into Germany routinely spread scandalous stories about Nazi officials and other German public figures.
[8] The rumor caught on in Germany and by at least the fall of 1938, the verb "quexen" (literally "to quex") had entered the Hitler Youth vocabulary as a euphemism for homosexual intercourse.
[11] David Welch, writing in Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933–1945, stated that Ohlsen was later sent to a concentration camp due to his homosexuality according to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.
These included Charkov and Belgorod in October 1941, the Donetsk battle the next month, and from June to the end of December 1942, various significant defensive actions in and around Kirov.
He was evacuated to the Military Hospital at Baden bei Wien (Vienna) due to ‘multiple grenade splinters throughout his entire body and recovered there on 24 February 1944.