2. Was Nietzsche a Nazi?
NO! His sister, Elizabeth, was married to a raging anti-semetic man.
Nietzsche was dead by the time Hitler came to power
Elizabeth “cultivated a relationship with Benito Mussolini…with her
connivance, the Nazi state turned Nietzche into an early supporter of the
third Reich” (Ashley and Orenstein 429).
3. With this association…
Students and scholars already approach Nietzsche with a bias (I know I
did…). Who wants to try to understand someone who purportedly
influenced Nazi ideals?
4. Was Nietzsche actually a nice guy?
Nietzsche did not like women; he “came to assume a misogynist outlook on
life” (Ashley and Orenstein 428).
Nietzsche was supposedly not anti-Semetic, not that he supported German
Jews, but “thought that anti-Semetics were idiots” (Ashley and Orenstein
428).
Being Jewish was a race to the Germans rather than ethnicity…what would
he have thought of Africans?
5. Works Cited
Ashley, David, and David Michael Orenstein. Sociological Theory: Classical
Statements. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1985. Print.
