Immanuel Can wrote:Quote Nietzsche.
...as follows:
Nietzsche heavily criticized his sister and her husband, Bernhard Förster, speaking harshly against the "anti-Semitic canaille:"
"I've seen proof, black on white, that Herr Dr. Förster has not yet severed his connection with the anti-Semitic movement...Since then I've had difficulty coming up with any of the tenderness and protectiveness I've so long felt toward you. The separation between us is thereby decided in really the most absurd way. Have you grasped nothing of the reason why I am in the world?...Now it has gone so far that I have to defend myself hand and foot against people who confuse me with these anti-Semitic canaille; after my own sister, my former sister, and after Widemann more recently have given the impetus to this most dire of all confusions. After I read the name Zarathustra in the anti-Semitic Correspondence my forbearance came to an end. I am now in a position of emergency defense against your spouse's Party. These accursed anti-Semite deformities shall not sully my ideal!!"
From a December, 1887 letter to Nietzsche's sister, who married an anti-Semite leader, Bernhard Foster
One of the greatest stupidities you have committed - for yourself and for me! Your association with an anti-Semitic chief expresses a foreignness to my whole way of life which fills me ever again with ire or melancholy. ... It is a matter of honor to me to be absolutely clean and unequivocal regarding anti-Semitism, namely opposed, as I am in my writings. I have been persecuted in recent times with letters and Anti-Semitic Correspondence sheets; my disgust with this party (which would like all too well the advantage of my name!) is as outspoken as possible, but the relation to Forster, as well as the after-effect of my former anti-Semitic publisher Schmeitzner, always brings the adherents of this disagreeable party back to the idea that I must after all belong to them. . . . Above all it arouses mistrust against my character, as if I publicly condemned something which I favored secretly - and that I am unable to do anything against it, that in every Anti-Semitic Correspondence sheet the name Zarathustra is used, has already made me almost sick several times.
from Nietzsche's Will to Power (trans. W. Kaufmann), s. 864
Esprit: quality of late races: Jews, Frenchmen, Chinese. (The anti-Semites do not forgive the Jews for possessing "spirit" - and money. Anti-Semites - another name for the "underprivileged.")
from Nietzsche's Nietzsche Contra Wagner
...since Wagner had moved to Germany, he had condescended step by step to everything I despise - even to anti-Semitism.
In a quick note to his friend Overbeck, right before Nietzsche's insanity
"Just now I am having all anti-Semites shot."
...and a few other little asides...
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote:
In the Jewish ‘Old Testament,’ the book of divine
justice, there are men, things, and sayings on such an
immense scale, that Greek and Indian literature has
nothing to compare with it. One stands with fear and
reverence before those stupendous remains of what man
was formerly, and one has sad thoughts about old Asia and
its little out-pushed peninsula Europe, which would like,
by all means, to figure before Asia as the ‘Progress of
Mankind.’
Quote:
We ‘good Europeans,’ we also have hours when
we allow ourselves a warm-hearted patriotism, a plunge
and relapse into old loves and narrow views—I have just
given an example of it— hours of national excitement, of
patriotic anguish, and all other sorts of old-fashioned
floods of sentiment. Duller spirits may perhaps only get
done with what confines its operations in us to hours and
plays itself out in hours—in a considerable time: some in
half a year, others in half a lifetime, according to the speed
and strength with which they digest and ‘change their
material.’ Indeed, I could think of sluggish, hesitating
races, which even in our rapidly moving Europe, would
require half a century ere they could surmount such
atavistic attacks of patriotism and soil-attachment, and
return once more to reason, that is to say, to ‘good
Europeanism.
Quote:
The masterpiece of German prose is therefore with good
reason the masterpiece of its greatest preacher: the BIBLE
has hitherto been the best German book. Compared with
Luther’s Bible, almost everything else is merely
‘literature’—something which has not grown in Germany,
and therefore has not taken and does not take root in
German hearts, as the Bible has done.
Quote:
What Europe owes to the Jews?—Many things,
good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both
of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the
fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite
significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of
moral questionableness—and consequently just the most
attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those
iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of
which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky,
now glows—perhaps glows out. For this, we artists among
the spectators and philosophers, are—grateful to the Jews.
There's more but enough for now; it goes to show the massive level of distortion required to make Nietzsche into a proto-nazi which you so vehemently insist upon and no doubt will continue doing so.