Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ubvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!cae780!ubvax!tonyw From: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Islam (long but not propaganda) Message-ID: <294@ubvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 11:23:37 EDT Article-I.D.: ubvax.294 Posted: Mon Aug 12 11:23:37 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 23:28:12 EDT References: <297@mit-athena.UUCP> <5690@cbscc.UUCP> <539@scc.UUCP> Reply-To: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch) Organization: Ungermann-Bass, Inc., Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 22 Xref: linus net.politics:9782 net.religion:6984 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 {amd,amdcad}!cae780!ubvax!tonyw