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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: Islam (long but not propaganda)
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Why are Camus & Sartre mentioned as sources of nazi ideology or ideas
for hitler's writings or speeches?  Simple chronology makes it nearly
impossible.

hitler's "My Struggle" (Mein Kampf) was published in the 1920s; nazi
ideology was fully formed by the time they assumed power.  Sartre
studied with Heidegger in 1938 for a year or so.  Nearly all Sartre's
& Camus' writings date from the 1940s on.  Only some unpolitical
philosophical essays (Sartre) & juvenilia & reviews (Camus) were
written in the 1930s.

Maybe Heidegger is the source intended: an ex-Jesuit whose works on
metaphysics are seminal for 20th century existentialism, Martin Heidegger
joined the nazi party in 1933 and was nazi rector of the University
of Freiburg from 1933-1936.  But Heidegger's abstruse & obscure essays
supply no political ideas; only his nazi party affiliation & public
pronouncements as a nazi official could have provided any fodder for 
hitler.

						Ron Rizzo