Marco den Ouden’s in-depth book review: Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R.C. Hicks
“Hicks is driven by a nagging question — how could Nazism happen? Here was one of the most civilized countries in the world, sinking into a morass of hatred, violence and destruction. Why?
“The answer is philosophy. ‘Not economics, not psychology, and not even politics.’ But philosophy.
“Hicks makes the point that ‘National Socialism was first a philosophy of life believed and advocated by highly intelligent men and women, Professors, public intellectuals, Nobel Prize-winners — all powerful minds working at the cutting edge of their disciplines. It was they who shaped the intellectual culture of Germany in the 1920s and who convinced millions of Germans that National Socialism was the best hope for Germany’s future.'”
Read the full review here.
Here is my dedicated page about editions and translations of Nietzsche and the Nazis. And here is den Ouden’s review from last year of Explaining Postmodernism.