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• @flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange 2026-09-04 11:26

  @ndevenish@mas.to @michel_slm@social.coop @mvsde@mastodon.social @1password@1password.social oh, maybe I can help. German historian here. Nietzsche had used that phrase "Wille zur Macht" in books he published himself. Then a book by that title was a different thing. It was assembled after his death by his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, who cut up his notebooks and rearranged the scraps into a doctrine of strength over weakness. Elisabeth was a big antisemite who founded a race-based colony in Paraguay. Her fabrication of Nietzsche is what the Nazis pushed. Scholars have treated the book as hers, and not his, ever since the Colli-Montinari edition of the 1960s. DHH's post has none of the man, the thinker, and all of the sister's toxic bullshit: weak men, hard times, a hero generation, total war. That phrase with that reading has one source: Nazi Weimar where Elisabeth welcomed Hitler in 1934 to pose together with her brother's bust. I'll write it up.

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