How extraordinary, if you cannot recognise that the ideal society of Hitler wasn’t really that different from that of Nietzsche, as both held an overall elitist attitude, which probably explains the type of person who is attracted to his philosophy.
It is not the mass that invents and not the majority that organizes or thinks, but in all things only and always the individual man, the person.
– Adolf Hitler
The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and spiritually similar beings. This preservation comprises first of all existence as a race, and thereby permits free development of all the forces dormant in this race.
– Adolf Hitler
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude…
– Adolf Hitler
Thus, in principle, it [national socialism] embraces the basic principle of Nature and believes in the validity of this law down to the last individual. It sees not only the different value of races, but also the different value of individual men. From the mass it extracts the importance of the person, and thus, in contrast to Marxism with its disorganizing effect, it acts in an organizing way.-- Adolf Hitler
Nietzsche never quite spelled out what he meant by Übermensch/The Superman did he. For Heidegger and others, it represented humanity that transcended itself, whilst for the Nazis it became a distinctive image of the master race.
My main dissatisfaction with N was his damaged attitude towards women, probably due to his failed love affair with Lou Salome, which inflamed his insulting slapping down of women. No doubt he was a complex man, but a man I find difficult, if not impossible, to use as a mentor or seek as an example of the so called ‘Superman’. Which in itself is ludicrous to begin with.
“So dangerous are women that they must be pressed back into the cage of nineteenth-century Apollonian’s chauvinism”.
That says it all.