Friedrich Nietzsche: The Superior Man

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The "Superior Man" idea originated from radical thinking in history. When these ideas reached the wrong mind, the extreme execution to fulfill them impacted history forever. The world watched as these evils were being performed on the innocent just to create a "Perfect Race".
Friedrich Nietzsche gave rise to many radical ideals regarding the "Superman" which eventually reached Adolf Hitler who expressed them in his infamous book Mein Kampf. Nietzsche had some rather radical views regarding humanity. He reflected much on how man can best himself. Since he also followed Charles Darwin’s teachings on evolution and natural selection, he believed that a human far greater than everything else will emerge and rule us all; he dubbed this new human …show more content…

The revival of Antisemitism sparked "all sorts of hatred against the Jews" to gain support from the people to join against one group. During Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, numerous pogroms against Jewish communities in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland were executed in which Jewish-owned properties were destroyed. It was clear that Adolf Hitler had a significant influence on the German population as he expressed his views of a "Superior Man" in destroying the Jewish religion and community. His beliefs brought the German people together. Later on, during the Holocaust, Hitler's enforcement of segregation of Jews served as the prime example of genocide to see that his "perfect Aryan race" would survive and fulfill their rights and responsibilities. Additionally, Hitler sought extreme ways to deal with the Jewish population and "clean up" his desired Aryan race. Through eugenics, Hitler attempted to create the "perfect race" for a "better" future for Germany. Selective breeding of humans attempted to keep the genetic purity of Aryans within the German population as well as forbidding the marriage between and Aryan and anyone of a "lesser race". Not only were the Nazis eliminating other races but they were creating a better one by controlling the lives of their own people as they saw fit. The Nazis believed that it was their own divine right to

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