Word: zarathustra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well remember sitting in the woods in France reading Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, as many other German soldiers did, in a continuous state of exaltation. This was the final liberation from heteronomy. European nihilism carried Nietzsche's prophetic word that 'God is dead.' Well, the traditional concept of God was dead...
...smaller band of Nietzscheans led by Novelist Thomas Mann acclaimed the Nietzsche of Thus Spake Zarathustra, the prophet-poet who looked piercingly about his Victorian world and pronounced all its accepted truths a sham. But his sister zealously vaunted her status as the Nietzsche Archive's high priestess, fostered the myth she had largely created, lived to transmit her priestess' blessing to Mussolini and Hitler. Nietzsche, Hitler proclaimed, was "the pioneer of National Socialism...
...other interests. With the help of a German scholar, he translated all of a Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, and his favorite authors changed to Nietzsche, Kropotkin, and Marx...