Actually, Nietsche was born in Prussia; and parts of that country were gobbled up by Germany and Russia in different wars. That, I guess, is why there is the confusion of whether he was German or Russian.
Nietzche combined the ideas of Darwin and Hegel, pointing to progress throught the emergence of a superman who would be superior to the rest of us in that he would abandon traditional moral standards and substitute the "will to power." Hitler bought into this idea big time; and decided that he would nuture a super race in the German society. He ended up killing thousands of Jews as a part of the attempted process.
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