/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10946042]

What kind of philosophers did Hitler and the Nazis read? It is widely known that they threw out a lot of "degenerate" art and I am assuming something similar happened with philosophical texts, but I am having trouble finding any examples. I would guess Jewish philosophers had their texts burned along with the other Jewish writings, but are there any examples of non-Jews being proscribed? What about philosophers that Hitler (or his ilk) idolized?

[Anonymous No.10946049]

>>10946042
You don't read philosophy and become a Nazi

[Anonymous No.10946056]

>>10946049
wow so deep and so true. mind if I put that quote on my tumblr?

[Anonymous No.10946062]

>>10946049
So.

Much.

This.

Have some Reddit Gold, good sir!

[Anonymous No.10946066]

>>10946042
The Nazis loved to throw around out of context Nietzsche quotes.

[Anonymous No.10946071]

I'm not sure about the Nazis specifically, however two German thinkers around that time that show a clear strain of "proto-nazism" (at least in the ideas of anti-Semitism and German expansionary nationalism) are Treitschke and Meinecke.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC No.10946076]

Nothing. Secularist capitalists interested in domination and some fantasy of racial purity.
They took advantage of the protestants and Catholics and took up where Napoleon left off. A stupid idea all around.

https://youtu.be/JqYJV2D1Hh0

[Anonymous No.10946082]

probably spengler

[Anonymous No.10946094]

>>10946076
are you Reddit, are you soy? real men are Nazis
see this pic for truth >>10946062

[I Go !2HARVARdHk No.10946100]

>>10946076
This board should have a minimum IQ

[Anonymous No.10946124]

>>10946100
It's nice that they let brainlet leftists in, then we get a chance to redpill them to white genocide

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC No.10946138]

>>10946124
>Nice juicy red pills

[Anonymous No.10946162]

>>10946042
Heidegger, Ernst Junger, Spengler (cf german Conservative Revolution), Nietzsche, Lagarde, Langbein, Moeller van der Bruck.
cf the National Bolshevisks, the Italian and Russian Futurists.

[Anonymous No.10946171]

>>10946042
Hitler was a fan of Schopenhauer [i.e. he was a "soy boy"]

[Anonymous No.10946174]

Funnily enough, many of their seemingly strongest influences weren’t supportive of them. Oswald Spengler and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck for instances.

[Anonymous No.10946178]

>>10946100
This board should ban all tripfaggots

[Anonymous No.10946184]

>>10946049

[Anonymous No.10946202]

>>10946076
>Nazis were capitalists
>National socialists were capitalist
Why are left-leaning Americans allowed on this board?
>>10946042
I've read that Himmler was very interested in Hinduism.

[Anonymous No.10946203]

blah blah blah lemme tell you sumting about hitler no i havent read mein kampf but ari goldstein told me about it in his landmark history 3rd Reich and the 6 Trillion who needs primary sources when trustworthy holocaust studies academics and hollywood movies can tell you everything we need to know

whatever you do dont read hitlers book its badly written and you already know everything about him from hollywood and history channel documentaries like "finding hitler: is he still alive?" and "hitler: the shit eating meth addict" and grade 12 history classes like i said

[Anonymous No.10946205]

>>10946162
>nazis read heidegger
i'm sure some minion somewhere in the system had to look at the words, but i highly doubt many nazis read heidegger. not many people in the nazi party want to learn about how happiness exists without order and the greeks are superior to germans and bureaucratic filing systems will kill us all before we're even dead. to be honest, if they understood half his work even before the turn they probably wouldn't have let him live or smuggle arendt out.

[Anonymous No.10946207]

>>10946203
kek

[Anonymous No.10946215]

>>10946203
you don't want to read mein kampf, it's chic lit, the title and the fact he mentions his art school years should be a tip off.

[Anonymous No.10946218]

>>10946202
The national socialists made a habit of selling off public ownership of state-owned firms, much of the time to organizations of the party itself.

>>10946205
Heidegger never regretted his participation in the Nazi party.

[Anonymous No.10946240]

>>10946218
>much of the time to organizations of the party itself
Sounds like socialism to me.

[Anonymous No.10946242]

>>10946218
>Heidegger never regretted his participation in the Nazi party.
he did basically nothing and spend most of his time speaking to farmers instead of students, my point is that the nazis never made him participate because he mostly spoke in bumpkin german and esoteric greek about how progress and reality are misstated and misapprehended by west philosophy since plato and how farmers don't recognise a tractor as a tractor before its assembled all the time. there's not really much room for a productive nazi propaganda campaign with him, even if anyone outside his district could understand him.

[Anonymous No.10946251]

>>10946100
i agree, it's annoying seeing commie posts on my otherwise intelligent board

[Anonymous No.10946258]

>>10946251
>he read pasternak and liked it
ew, pls go cia

[Anonymous No.10946321]

I'm pretty sure every soldier or every SS soldier carried Thus Spoke Zarathrustra.

[Anonymous No.10946330]

>>10946321
why wouldn't they carry his sister's edit of works, if they carried anything?

[Anonymous No.10946351]

>>10946218
>Heidegger never regretted his participation in the Nazi party.
He never apologized. Arendt forgave him though when she finally met him again year later, so it's probably complicated. I'm still waiting for the Black Notebooks to finish being translated into English.

[Anonymous No.10946367]

>>10946330
>His sister edited his works
Propaganda.

[Anonymous No.10946383]

>>10946367
she did. which is why the nazi propagandists were so keen to get pictures of her with the fuhrer