RE: Nietzsche Understood that Germany Must be Destroyed
January 25, 2014 at 4:10 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2014 at 4:13 am by Alex K.)
(January 25, 2014 at 1:33 am)EgoRaptor Wrote: I would never love a German.
Oh no, but we were off to such a good start!
This thread is full of win. Germany, one of the most politically moderate countries in Europe today, has a genocidal culture - check
Nietzsche, who explicitly states his adoration for the jewish people in his texts, would have been a-ok with the gas chambers - check
There is no need to compare the shoah to what happened in the americas to acknowledge that it was genocide. Doesn't matter whether you *feel* that it wasnt - super!
That being said, the idea that Hitler had magical charisma that singlehandedly made the Germans do all these things, is bizarre. Europe went into the first world war in a strange state of mind, where many, not only in Germany, were practically waiting for it. After that, the fact that Germany (like Japan) had a rather militaristic culture, in combination with the Versailles treaty and general crisis, did the rest.The Germans of the time absolutely longed for a possibility to regain their pride, prosperity, and Hitlers way to these goals was seductively simple.
