e states: "Genuine philosophers, however, are commanders and legislators: they say `thus it shall be!'"(1250). Hitler, it can be theorized, wanted to be a genuine philosopher, and wanted to prove himself an ubermensch. God being dead, according to Nietzsche, Hitler produced an extreme nationalist fervor in his people, revolving around him. He would soon use this power over his citizens to wage a war of conquest.‹As with the anti-Semitism, one can see certain thoughts about conquest in Nietzsche. In "Beyond Good and Evil," he speaks of "an increase in the menace of Russia that Europe would have to resolve to become menacing, too..."(1247). Calling for unification by whatever means necessary, he states, "the time for petty politics is over: the very next century will bring the fight for the dominion of the earth--the compulsion to large-scale politics"(1247).‹Any Nazi who read such a text fragment would certainly see Hitler and Nazi Germany as the bringers of an eventual peace, and as the last bastion of defense for Europe. Of his will to power, Nietzsche states that "Life...is specifically a will to the accumulation of force...nothing wants to preserve itself, everything is to be added and accumulated"(Oaklander, 81). Taken figuratively, one can relate Nietzsche's words to the expansion of an empire. Of course, Nietzsche's prophetic claim that a battle for the world was coming left out the potential role of a democratic experiment only a century old at this point: The United States of America.‹On democracies, Nietzsche argued that they were the small-minded herd in control, a glorification of the slave morality, which could only hold back an overman. Taking a view of society somewhat similar to a view of laissez-faire capitalism, Nietzsche believes that it is the overmen that drive the progress of society, much like entrepreneurs drive capitalism. Thus, he says, democracy is "a form of the decay, namely th...
