people, and their “inferior” bloodlines needed to be eliminated from humanity’s gene pool. Although Nietzsche was generally unappreciated during his lifetime, not long after his death he was virtually canonized by many as the patron saint of the growing nationalistic movement that led to World War I and that would then develop into the Fascism that brought about World War II. During World War I German soldiers were issued two books: The Gospel of John and Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. Nietzsche’s