Nazi propaganda translated Nietzsche’s will-to-power philosophy into practical mass manipulation

Evidence

Nietzsche believed that the contradiction inside the notion of ideology had at last been dismantled: Reason was a ruse: all that was left was the naked power-struggle between illusions, between interests. The most successful illusion was that which evinced the greatest “will to power.” We know what Hitler and the skilled masters of illusion who gathered around him in the 1930s did with that idea. They translated Nietzsche’s fantasy into reality: they set about constructing a G ö tzend ä mmerung . — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 342

Categorization

• SEED: An essay on how philosophical critiques of Reason descend into engineered illusion — the intellectual genealogy from Nietzsche to Nazi propaganda.
• XREF: connects to: Nietzsche was dismissed as a fun but worthless philosopher — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 288