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Thursday 20 April 2006

Lanz

Connections have been shown between Lanz's world-view and Nietzsche's in the above post. Lanz also provides a 'rainbow bridge' between Nietzsche and Hitler;
"Lanz's specific recommendations for the disposal of Racial inferiors were various, and included: deportation to Madagascar; enslavement; incineration as a sacrifice to god; and use as beasts of burden".
[Goodrick-Clarke]

It seems that the SS took their Nietzsche very seriously - but then it is the Destiny of every philosophy to be turned into action and deed at some time or other. Lanz's magazine 'Ostara' provided a ready digest of such cutting-edge thought, and it is no surprise that the young Hitler was a subscriber to it, who even made a pilgrimage to meet Lanz;
"the stock themes of Lanz's 'Ostara' were racial somatology, anti-feminism, anti-parliamentarianism and the spiritual differences between the blond and the dark races in the fields of ual behaviour, art, philosophy, commerce, politics, and warfare, and caste-law derived from the Hindoo codes of Manu".
[ib.]

The latter was of course championed by Nietzsche, who called the Manu the most 'Aryan' of doents. Also, uality was an important subject for Nietzsche, in his estimation of the distance between man and woman, as well as in the questions of Blood and 'woman as such'. Nietzsche's Genealogy makes much of the qualitative distance between the blond and dark races, and the term 'Blond Beast' is coined there in that connexion.
All in all, the lineage from Nietzsche to Hitler is well established, with the likes of Lanz filling out and enriching the picture.

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