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Nazism
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The darker side of Nietzsche’s ideas was incorporated into the Nazi belief system. Part of the link was straightforward: some things Nietzsche said were pure Nazi doctrine. His comments that ‘The extinction of many types of people is just as desirable as any form of reproduction’ and that ‘the tendency must be towards the rendering extinct of the wretched, the deformed, the degenerate’ could come from any work on racial hygiene.
Nietzsche’s central contribution was not these explicitly Social
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― Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
― Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
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Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto - and of course, the Manifesto contained many key ideas that are still relevant and important today, long after Stalin has gone. There is a crucial distinction between the book and its effect - it's crucial because if you talk about a book being harmful rather than its effect you begin to legiti
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― Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions
― Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions











































