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> I don't think anyone has considered Nietzsche a Nazi for a long time.

A recent example would be Steven Pinker:

"It’s easy to see why his sociopathic ravings would have inspired so many repugnant movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, including fascism, Nazism, Bolshevism, the Ayn Randian fringe of libertarianism, and the American alt-right and neo-Nazi movements today."

https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/08/why-nietzsche-has-once-...

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While Nietzsche wasn't actually a Nazi as he died 20 years before the party was formed he did have some handy quotes that proved popular with them eg.

"Man shall be trained for war and woman for the procreation of the warrior, anything else is folly"

That may be the point of view of one of his characters rather than his personal belief but I'm not sure his Nazi follower types were that careful in their literary analysis.

Same with the modern alt-right see eg "The alt-right is drunk on bad readings of Nietzsche. The Nazis were too." https://www.vox.com/2017/8/17/16140846/alt-right-nietzsche-r...

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