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And Nietzsche never said, that germans or himself were Übermenschen!
Given Nietzsche's regard for himself, it would be funny if he never considered himself to be at least half Übermensch. At least he wrote that Zarathustra represented the type of Übermensch, and the character of Zarathustra was similar to Nietzsche himself. From Ecce Homo (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52190/52190-0.txt):
The word "Superman," which designates a type of man that would be one of nature's rarest and luckiest strokes, as opposed to "modern" men, to "good" men, to Christians and other Nihilists,--a word which in the mouth of Zarathustra, the annihilator of morality, acquires a very profound meaning,--is understood almost everywhere, and with perfect innocence, in the light of those values to which a flat contradiction was made manifest in the figure of Zarathustra--that is to say, as an "ideal" type, a higher kind of man, half "saint" and half "genius."
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See how Zarathustra goes down from the mountain and speaks the kindest words to every one! See with what delicate fingers he touches his very adversaries, the priests, and how he suffers with them from themselves! Here, at every moment, man is overcome, and the concept "Superman" becomes the greatest reality,--out of sight, almost far away beneath him, lies all that which heretofore has been called great in man. The halcyonic brightness, the light feet, the presence of wickedness and exuberance throughout, and all that is the essence of the type Zarathustra, was never dreamt of before as a prerequisite of greatness. In precisely these limits of space and in this accessibility to opposites Zarathustra feels himself the _highest of all living things_: and when you hear how he defines this highest, you will give up trying to find his equal.
Even in the case that the Nazis didn't get the concept of the Übermensch from Nietzsche, Hitler was still a fan of Nietzsche. Hitler gave Mussolini a 24-volume set of Nietzsche's books as a gift for his sixtieth birthday (http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/Hitler/2001/HW_Web_dl.pdf):
Mussolini had still not been found by the Führer's agents. All that was known was that he was still alive, because Hitler's sixtieth birthday gift to him - a twenty-four-volume set of Nietzsche - was duly acknowledged by the deposed dictator.
In Hitler's Table Talk, there are two different passages where Kant, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer are given as examples of great German thinkers, but in the other passage, it is said that Schopenhauer has been far surpassed by Nietzsche (https://archive.org/details/HitlersTableTalk_1941_1944):
In our parts of the world, the Jews would have immediately eliminated Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Kant. If the Bol- sheviks had dominion over us for two hundred years, what works of our past would be handed on to posterity? Our great men would fall into oblivion, or else they'd be presented to future generations as criminals and bandits.
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In the Great Hall of the Linz Library are the busts of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the greatest of our thinkers, in comparison with whom the British, the French and the Americans have nothing to offer. His complete refutation of the teachings which were a heritage from the Middle Ages, and of the dogmatic philosophy of the Church, is the greatest of the services which Kant has rendered to us. It is on the foundation of Kant's theory of knowledge that Schopenhauer built the edifice of his philosophy, and it is Schopenhauer who anni- hilated the pragmatism of Hegel. I carried Schopenhauer's works with me throughout the whole of the first World War. From him I learned a great deal. Schopenhauer's pessimism, which springs partly, I think, from his own line ofphilosophical thought and partly from subjective feeling and the experiences of his own personal life, has been far surpassed by Nietzsche.
I don't know if Hitler's Table Talk is genuine, but at least David Irving said that it is: https://worldtruthvideos.website/wat...Rj4oAp9Yy.html, time 49:25.
One thing that Hitler may have gotten from Nietzsche is his hatred of Christianity, because in Hitler's Table Talk, he speaks of Christianity in very Nietzschean terms (in case that the Table Talk actually represents the words of Hitler). And Nietzsche wrote that his Übermensch was "opposed to 'modern' men, to 'good' men, to Christians and other Nihilists".
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