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Historical Dictionary of Nietzscheanism

The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and his sister Elisabeth who was an ultranationalist German

 

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Around the turn of the century, the ranks of confirmed Nietzscheans

included Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Martin Buber, Paul Heyse,

Christian Morgenstern, Georg Simmel, Carl Gustav Jung, Robert Musil, Hermann Hesse, and Rainer Maria Rilke as well as Karl Kraus,

Margarete Susman, Emil Ludwig, Albert Schweitzer, and Max Brod,

though not all remained under Nietzsche’s spell: Morgenstern, for

example, went over to Steiner’s theosophy

 

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Nietzsche prided himself on being a good European and was often

disgusted by German chauvinism. This did not deter Elisabeth from

collaborating with the fascists both out of financial expediency and conviction. Although she admired Benito Mussolini more than Adolf Hitler,

Elisabeth gratefully accepted the logistic help offered by the National

Socialists; Hitler even helped her from his private purse. The symbiotic

relationship ensured that Elisabeth felt important and flattered, and the

National Socialists made propaganda by claiming Nietzsche as a protofascist. It was also good publicity for Hitler to be photographed beside

an endearing little old lady who, though she was childless, seemed to

represent German motherhood, casting Hitler as dutiful son. When she

died in 1935, the whole administration of the Nietzsche-Archiv, headed

by Max Oehler, was firmly in support of the Third Reich. Hitler and a

host of party dignitaries attended Elisabeth’s funeral.