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Subject: Re: Re: Islam (long but not propaganda)
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> 
> 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  . . .

	. . . You have committed one of the greatest stupidities--for
	yourself and for me!  Your association with an anti-Semitic
	cheif expresses a foreignness to my whole way of life which
	fills me again and again with meloncholy. . . . It is
	a matter of honor with me to be absolutely clean and
	unequivical in relation to anti-Semitism, namely *opposed*
	to it, as I am in my writings.  I have recently been 
	persecuted with letters and *Anti-Semitic Correspondence
	Sheets.*  My disgust with this party (wich would like the
	benefit of my name only too well!) is as pronounced as 
	possible, but the relation to Forster [Nietzche's sister's
	husband], as well as the afteraffects of my former publisher,
	the anti-Semitic Schmeitzer, always brings this disagreeable
	party back to the idea that I must belong to them after all . . .
	It arouses mistrust against my character, as if publicly
	I condemmed something which I favored secretly--and that
	I am unable to do anything against it, that the name
	Zarathustra is used in every *Anti-Semitic Correspondence
	Sheet*, has almost made me sick several times.

			The Portable Nietzche
			ed. Walter Kaufman
			p. 456-457


	The last thing Nietzche wrote was a letter to his friend
Overbeck:

	To friend Overbeck and wife.  Although you have so far
	demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I hope to
	yet demonstrate that I am someone who pays his debts--for
	example, to you, I am just having all anti-Semites shot.

			Dionysus



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