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From: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: Re: Islam (long but not propaganda)
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 11:23:37 EDT
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In article <539@scc.UUCP> steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) writes:
>> 
>> Also, I think Luther's opinion played a relatively minor part with Hitler
>> compared to Nietzsche, for example (either directly, or indirectly through
>> men like Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre).  
>> It is generally argued that the ideas of people like Nietzsche, Camus,
>> Sartre and Darwin were selectively applied or twisted by Hitler.  Indeed,
>> these men did, or probably would have, strongly opposed the Nazi way of
>> doing things.  
>
>	Nietzche wrote to his sister in 1887  . . .

And then comes lots of liberalish Nietzsche quotes, against Anti-Semitism,
German nationalism, etc..  None of these quotes can wipe away that there
were enough ambiguities in Nietzsche about supermen and power and dumb
cowlike masses to permit fascists to easily abuse Nietzsche whenever they
found it convenient.

How did Camus and Sartre get on a list of people influencing Hitler?

Tony Wuersch
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