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originally posted by: trollz
a reply to: Duderino
Why would you think it's a joke?
Nazism The term Übermensch was used frequently by Hitler and the Nazi regime to describe their idea of a biologically superior Aryan or Germanic master race;[15] a racial version of Nietzsche's Übermensch became a philosophical foundation for National Socialist ideas.[16][17] The Nazi notion of the master race also spawned the idea of "inferior humans" (Untermenschen) who should be dominated and enslaved; this term does not originate with Nietzsche, who was critical of both antisemitism and German nationalism. In his final years, Nietzsche began to believe that he was in fact Polish, not German, and was quoted as saying, "I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German blood".[18] In defiance of nationalist doctrines, he claimed that he and Germany were great only because of "Polish blood in their veins",[19] and that he would be "having all anti-semites shot" as an answer to his stance on anti-semitism. Nietzsche died long before Hitler's reign, and it was partly Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche who manipulated her brother's words to accommodate the worldview of herself and her husband, Bernhard Förster, a prominent German nationalist and antisemite.[20] Forster founded the Deutscher Volksverein (German People's League) in 1881 with Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg.[21]