Abstract
After returning from a journey to Germany, the author searched to reflect upon the causes of the rise of Nazism. For him what would have moved Hitlerists to war were not economic problems, but "spiritual sources", a "philosophical dynamism" inherent to German culture, with roots in Martin Luther and in German romantics, summed up in Nietzschean thinking. As the main responsible for the German rupture with the classic ideal of the ancients and with French rationality, Nietzsche would be "dynamit" in the hands of the German generation of 1900, who would have confused Zarathustra with Hitler.
Keywords
Nietzsche; culture; philosophy; national socialism; Hitler