Hitler was obsessed with the superiority of the Aryan race over the rest. Darwin's ideas, which were primitively understood and transferred to the social soil, gave rise to the myth of racial natural selection, as a result of which the best, i.e. Aryan, race should prevail – all others should be subject to either destruction (Jews) or enslavement (Slavs). As a result of “natural” selection and proper breeding, the German nation must produce a “superman”. Adolf Hitler was introduced to this idea by Friedrich Nietzsche's own sister Elizabeth. It must be said that Elizabeth was the heir to her brother's manuscripts, and did not hesitate to edit his books in such a way that they would be suitable for the ideological basis of the Third Reich.
Hitler was obsessed with the superiority of the Aryan race over the rest. Darwin's ideas, which were primitively understood and transferred to the social soil, gave rise to the myth of racial natural selection, as a result of which the best, i.e. Aryan, race should prevail – all others should be subject to either destruction (Jews) or enslavement (Slavs). As a result of “natural” selection and proper breeding, the German nation must produce a “superman”. Adolf Hitler was introduced to this idea by Friedrich Nietzsche's own sister Elizabeth. It must be said that Elizabeth was the heir to her brother's manuscripts, and did not hesitate to edit his books in such a way that they would be suitable for the ideological basis of the Third Reich.