/lit/ - Literature

>>13972607
Not especially. I would say he was more of a Wagnerian but he was nonetheless profoundly influenced by Nietzsche. He sometimes spoke of the coming superman race and how he had 'met them'. He also, although less so than Mussolini, emphasized the importance of will to power and man-as-beast of prey into his doctrine.
He echoes Nietzsche's grandiosity and phrasing in some of his writings:
>My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes...That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication...That is how I will create the New Order.

>>13750487
>Also Kubizek's The Young Hitler I Knew. Had to google, but here's an archived post with some quotations from it:
>>>/lit/thread/7165311
Hitler was a very intelligent man. What translation did you read mein kampf in?

>Weakness must be hammered away. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes.
How could anyone dislike this guy?