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peoples." Nietzsche also adapted his hatred of religion with the atheism of
Darwin.
In his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea, the Darwinist writer Daniel C.
Dennett describes Darwin's influence on Nietzsche in the following way:
"Friedrich Nietzsche saw …an even more cosmic message in Darwin:...If
Nietzsche is the father of existentialism, then perhaps Darwin deserves the title
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of grandfather." Dennett explains in great detail how Darwin and Nietzsche's
ideas run parallel, and although Nietzsche seems to criticize Darwin in some
of his writings, he gives many examples where Nietzsche clearly approves of
Darwinist thought.
After Nietzsche's death, the most important exponent of his philosophy
was his sister, Elisabeth Nietzsche. She stood out as an avowed supporter of
Nazi ideology in Hitler's Germany, and announced that her brother's model of
the "Superman" had been brought to life by Hitler. 16
Nietzsche's influence on Nazi ideology is a reality that has been stressed
by a great many historians. W. Cleon Skousen writes that, when "Hitler wrote
Mein Kampf, it was as though Nietzsche was speaking from the dead." 17
Another historian, George Lichtheim, writes, "It is not
too much to say that but for Nietzsche the SS—Hitler's
shock troops and the core of the whole movement—
would have lacked the inspiration to carry our their
programs of mass murder in Eastern Europe." 18
As the historian H. F. Peters puts it, many have
cursed Nietzsche as "the father of fascism." 19 In his
book, The Myth of the 20th Century, the Nazi ideologue
Alfred Rosenberg openly praised
Nietzsche. Hitlerjugend (Hitler
Youth), the youth wing of the
Nazi movement, took Nietzsche's
Thus Spake Zarathustra as a sacred
text. Adolf Hitler had a special
monument erected in Nietzsche's
According to the
memory, and incepted the
historian W. Cleon
foundations of an educational
Skousen, Hitler's
center and library "where Mein Kampf was as
German youth could be taught if "Nietzsche was
speaking from the
Nietzsche's doctrine of a master
dead."