Sunday, January 29, 2012

THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA




Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
Though Nietzsche has been associated with several murderers, the most famous is probably Adolf Hitler. Hitler had Thus Spoke Zarathustra issued to his troops and read him religiously. Seemingly assured that he was an Übermensch himself, reportedly “Hitler often visited the Nietzsche museum in Weimar and published his veneration for the philosopher by posing for photographs of himself staring in rapture at the bust of the great man.”

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