Although the Übermensch was only introduced briefly in Nietzsche’s book; Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the Nazis gladly took the concept and applied it. Hitler’s chosen Üntermensch was the Jewish people. Nietzsche believed that God was dead. This quote shows how Nietzsche had lost all belief in the world and became nihilistic, blaming the “herd” for the world’s problems, “The death of otherworldly hopes for redemption, Nietzsche imagines two possible responses: the easy response, the way of the ‘herd’ and ‘the last man,’ or the difficult response, the way of the ‘exception,’ …show more content…
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