Friedrich Nietzsche: The Nazi Ideology Of Religion

Nietzsche was a revolutionary author and philosopher who has had a tremendous impact on German culture up through the twentieth century and even today. Nietzsche's views were very unlike the popular and conventional beliefs and practices of his time and nearly all of his published works were, and still are, rather controversial, especially in On the Genealogy of Morals. His philosophies are more than just controversial and unconventional viewpoints, however; they are absolutely extreme and dangerous if taken out of context or misinterpreted. After Nietzsche's death it took very little for his sister to make some slight alterations to his works to go along with Nazi ideology.

Nietzsche is widely known as a critic of religion. In fact, he talks in depth about morality in regards to religion in his essays about the genealogy of morals. But the problem is not within religion itself or within morals. The problem is involved in the combination of the two to create society’s understanding of morality through a very religious lens. In fact, Nietzsche has criticism for almost any set of morals constructed by a group of individuals and meant to be applied to society as a whole. True morality, according to Nietzsche, requires a separation from these group dynamic views of morality- or at least a sincere look into where they originated and why they persist- and a movement towards a more introverted, and intrinsically personalized understanding of what morals mean in spite of the fact that “the normative force to which every member of society is exposed, in the form of obligations, codes of behavior, and other moral rules and guidelines, is disproportionally high” (Korfmacher 6).

This view of social dominance and evolutionary superiority is very in line with the views of the Nazi Party and ordinary Germans. This hate for the Jews starts with Hitler’s Ant-Jewish propaganda and the implementation of the Nuremberg laws. In “Perish the Jew,” Hitler puts his views of racial superiority into writing, “The Aryan regards work as the basis for the maintenance of the national community as such; the Jew regards work as a means of exploiting other peoples” (Hitler 223). With this writing and other propaganda, Hitler successfully spread a hate for Jewish people across the country. Hitler then created the Nuremberg Laws, which slowly but successfully stripped the Jews of all their rights and made them second-class citizens in Germany. The Jews slowly became, in the eyes of the German people and the SS, people who could be consciously oppressed and turned into slave workers.

The hatred towards Jews was nothing new in that time. Throughout history Jews have been prosecuted and blamed for many of the world's problems, and Germany was the same. The treaty of Versailles was incredibly harsh on Germany as it extinguished the nations power and reduced its presets on an international scale. The Germany people especially hated the treaty of Versailles and they needed someone to blame, so lo and behold the hatred of Jews began in Germany. The TOV was signed and approved by Jewish politicians so many German peopled blamed Jews for the TOV. During the 1930s, many Jews where doctors, lawyers and bankers which

This is where he would first spell out his hatred of the Jews. Because of the political scene after WWI, many Germans hated the fact that there were losses in battle and they felt they were being stabbed by the back and blamed it on the Jews. Another factor fueling the fire that is the hatred of the Jews is economic strains from the great depression. Before the Nazis arrived on the scene, the idea of extermination of the mentally disabled and disabled would free up money for Germany’s economy. This already planted the idea in the heads that the racially undesirables should be exterminated to free up money for the superior races. (Burleigh,

According to Mail Online, Hitler’s animosity was very strong. “Hitler and the Nazis believed that the Jews were biologically and racially distinct”. They thought that every person that was a Jew was not a real human and they had no right to live. Once Hitler rose into control, he used his power to campaign against all Jewish people. Nazis made all German people stop shopping in Jewish shops because a Jew was thought to be a “sub-human”. (Mail Online) This was all a part of Hitler’s plan for their downfall. The presence of racism was growing so strong to the point that children were being taught anti-Semitic ideas. In 1935, a group of laws called the Nuremberg Laws were passed and all German citizens, that were Jewish, lost all freedom, independence, and even citizenship. The prejudice increased so vastly that a chemist would not sell medicine to a Jew, even if it would save their life.

The growth of Anti Semitism was the main factor that contributed to Nazi beliefs. Anti semitism is racial prejudice against Jews. It started to grow in 1881. The largest growth was in 1903, after the book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This caused the formation of many anti semitic gangs, which then proceeded to kill Jews. Antisemitism was soon a popular political party and gained the support of Adolf Hitler.

Dating back to oldest of human history there was always a hatred for the Jews by others, this hate that was passed down from generation to generation that built up slowly til someone took it too far; Anti-Semitism is what it is now known as, resentment to the Jews that started from lies and passed on through rumours. Adolf Hitler was a man of resentment, he was leader of the Nazi’s; a German extreme political party who held a strong hatred for the Jewish race. Hitler had loathed the Jews all his life and when it came to the great depression where everyone was so very upset he used this as an opportunity to throw shade on the Jews and blame them for all their wrongs of their lives and people were desperate enough to accept this reasoning in hope for a better life. Hitler gained massive acceptance with the nation and his political party grew threw the course of two years and by 1933 the Nazi’s had taken over without even having won an election all thanks to Hitler’s persuasiveness that granted him the chance of becoming Chancellor. Hitler used all of his power to

First, one must take a close look at the leader of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler. He became chancellor in 1933 and Fuhrer in 1934, but his anti-Semitic propaganda began long before then. The Nazi campaign against the Jews started as early as 1929. There is no argument that Hitler hated and blamed the Jewish people for Germany?s economic downfall following World War I, he even went so far as to blame them for the loss of the war itself. According to intentionalists ?Hitler is seen as the driving force of Nazi anti-Semitic policy?? (Marrus, 35).

The Nazis were a horribly corrupted group that was looking for answers and a way to rebuild after the devastation of WWI. Hitler realized that as long as he had some sort of answer to the cause of Germany's new debt, and a powerful group on his side he could convince the rests of Germany to agree with his views. This is why the Jewish group is the most mourned of all that were persecuted, because they were the primary scapegoat of the German's problems. In my eyes the Jewish group shouldn't be seen as the only

One of the main goals of the National Socialist German Workers’ party was to make the German population believe that the Jews were an enemy and a race that was not human using propaganda, they did these things by telling lies like Jews are responsible for Marxism, Hitler hated

In this Commentary of sections 1-7 of essay two in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals, I will give a brief overview of the text, to help with showing the content that the comment covers, the go deeper into the individual sections and relate them to Nietzsche’s way of thinking and also look into any problems or solutions offered by those arguments.

Nazi ideology and thoughts created gradually, its begin in reality when the Nazi party began to rule in Germany on 1933. The Nazi party pedigree the Germany defeat in the first world war to German Jewish. The main reason behind this indictment to the Jewish, because they controlled the German press, also they were occupied a lot of high positions in Germany. They started persuade the German people in these way of thinking. In order to fill the German people with hates for Jewish,. To make the other steps more easy for them . during that time the Nazi racism it's not only affected the Jewish, moreover there policies affect the Dutch, Russian people, the people with special needs. even more than this their racism affected the communist, socialist and homosexual form the German people. Which means the Nazi party considered everybody does not sharing an believe with

The question of what may result from the fostering of critical, individual thought may have never even risen let alone remain unanswered if not for the consideration of some of the world’s greatest minds. Rigorously questioning the objectivity and truth of values whilst preserving a focus on the impacts of religion and morality on contemporary culture, Friedrich Nietzsche was, and remains to be, one of the most notably influential figures within the domain of 19th century philosophy. Upon viewing a number of citizens who were adopting a pessimistic and distrustful standpoint against the societal values of the time, Nietzsche came to the belief that the system of morals which had been lived by were no longer resonating with the maturing populace and that God was effectively useless; it is for this reason that Nietzsche announces the “Death of God”. Though a particular brand of nihilist may have viewed this passing as a detriment to the social cohesion of the populace due to an absence of any universal, absolute values - once attributed to God - Nietzsche proposed that this was not necessarily the case. Instead,

Humans need the appearance of some sort of structure to live. They need rules to live by to tell them whether or not they are living “right”, in a good way or a bad way. We humans have come up with many different ways to tell whether we are living right “right” or not. We have come up with all of the different types of religions and the different sets of morals , all of which change throughout history and time depending on and reflecting it’s episteme. How can any religion or set of morals be considered the “right one” when there has been no consistency with either? Both Feuerbach and Nietzsche have the same belief, that religions and morals are only a crutch that humans grab on to in order to give some meaning to the random assortment of life on earth. Both think that religion was a crutch for humans because of our inability to be perfect. Religions especially Christianity (Jesus) have their own destruction built in to them because of the humanity aspect. Though Feuerbach and Nietzsche agreed upon this they had very different opinions on how it would come about.