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Originally Posted by Mephistopheles  The OP sounds like some moron who believes the Nazi perversion of Nietzsche is the correct one... Sorry to be harsh but I definitely will defend Nietzsche from unwarranted attacks. ^_^ |
Having a portrait of Hitler in your photo gallery here doesn't exactly help your argument.
Nietzsche was certainly misappropriated by people including the Nazis (but also including his own sister) who spun his work into an antisemitic agenda. Nietzsche certainly does not deserve the blame for things that happened afterwards in Germany, the currents of which were already moving swiftly during the late 19th century. No more so than Marx deserves blame for the Gulags.
But let's not give him too much credit. He was a vicious misogynist, he was brash and arrogant, and he left enough ambiguity about his moral Ubermensch and enough specificity about his untermenschen that he was
easily incorporated into Naziism.