How did Nietzsche's works come to be known as being pro-Nazi?

Good Nietzsche/Cruel Sister is a criminally simplified version of the story. He showed he was aware he's popular both with the rightwing nuts and with the anarchists way before he went insane in his Ecce Homo. And when you read about the master morality of the heathen opposed to the slave morality taken by the Jews from Egypt and imposed on the masters in his Geneology, or about the Blonde Beast in same book it takes some patience to explain it all away as merely philosophy involvings lions and the church not being true to the roots anymore. Or take beyond good and evil:

To refrain mutually from injury, from violence, from exploitation, and put one's will on a par with that of others: this may result in a certain rough sense in good conduct among individuals when the necessary conditions are given (namely, the actual similarity of the individuals in amount of force and degree of worth, and their co-relation within one organization). As soon, however, as one wished to take this principle more generally, and if possible even as the FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF SOCIETY, it would immediately disclose what it really is—namely, a Will to the DENIAL of life, a principle of dissolution and decay. Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is ESSENTIALLY appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation.

I know that modern day philosophy students are trained to say "he means something completely" because there some philosophers in 1960s france who were mainly about rehabilitating Nietzsche which was totally rad and quite tres incroyable. But their ideas about Nietzsche are as legit those of the Nazis. There are a plenty of quotable passages in Nietzsche if you are nazi. Of course he is also used by Freud; or: by the post-modernists; or: by every fashionable author this Graeber with his global history of History of Debt.

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