After Nietzsche's death, his sister Elisabeth curated and edited his manuscripts, reworking Nietzsche's unpublished writings to fit her own German nationalist ideology while often contradicting or distorting his stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism. -u/LegendaryFalcon

At 32, Richard Strauss was already widely regarded as the leading German composer of the day, Wagner’s musical heir and a controversial modernist bad boy. He intended the opening of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (which later became the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey) to depict the mountaintop sunrise that opens Nietzsche’s book of the same name. -u/yaboodooect

Nietzsche was not a nihilist and feared that if nihilism took hold it could lead to great wars in the twentieth century. -u/Narwall776

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Richard Wagner (1813-1883) were frenemies, and one of the last nails in the coffin of their friendship was Wagner's allusion that Nietzsche's ill health was the result of "excessive masturbation". -u/danifrancuzrose

Fascism and the rise of power of Nazism, was indirectly due to the misinterpreted understandings of Übermensch, posited by Zarathustra, in Also Sprach Zarathustra, written by Nietzsche. -u/garimus

Freud repeatedly stated that he had never read Nietzsche. But evidence contradicting this are in his references to Nietzsche, his quotations and paraphrases of him, in casual conversation and his now published personal correspondence, as well as in his early and later writings. -u/imstayinalive

There's a book written by Friedrich Nietzsche whose translated title is "The Gay Science", back when the word "gay" was a synonym of "cheerful." -u/elSenorMaquina

Nietzsche drank only water – and as a special treat, milk. And he thought we should do likewise. The idea went to the heart of his philosophy, as contained in his declaration: ‘There have been two great narcotics in European civilization: Christianity and alcohol.’ -u/eggheado

The Aryan Brotherhood has a required reading list for prospective members. It includes Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", "The Prince" by Machiavelli, and "Beyond Good and Evil" and "The Will to Power" by Nietzsche. -u/dresdnhope

Superman was originally created to be a villain based on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. -u/Momofashow

Bipolar disorder is linked to creativity, with people like Van Gogh, Amy Winehouse, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Cobain, Georg Cantor and Friedrich Nietzsche having suffered from this condition. -u/malonemuistu

Friedrich Nietzsche was a composer of music, not just an existential philosopher. -u/annaanonymous

While the Nazis destroyed thousands of artwork by modernists such as Otto Dix, Kandinsky and Metzinger, Gustav Klimt's paintings were sparred destruction because they echoed the ideals of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Schiller. -u/AvalancheMaster

Nietzsche had a motherf*cker of a mustache. -deleted user

In 1934, a walking stick that had belonged to Friedrich Nietzsche was presented by his sister Elisabeth to Adolf Hitler. -u/JerkyOnassis

'Amor fati', coined by Nietzsche, is a phrase used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good. -u/fuzzo

When Friedrich Nietzsche switched from pen & paper to the typewriter he began writing with more generalizations, with more puns, and in a style more similar to Telegraph messages. -u/ImportantLoLFacts

On his 60th birthday, Mussolini received a gift from Hitler of a complete twenty-four-volume set of the works of Nietzsche. -deleted user

Despite renouncing his citizenship Friedrich Nietzsche served as a medical attendant during the Franco-Prussian War. He was present at the 1870 Siege of Metz where he contracted dysentery and diphtheria. -u/Ekolot

Stephen Fry referenced Star Trek in his Cambridge dissertation on Nietzsche to exemplify the dichotomy of human nature and rational philosophy. -u/EternalRecurrence

Friedrich Nietzsche owned a shrivekugel, the world's first electric typewriter, and even wrote a poem about it. -u/kcripe

22 years before another horse famously brought about his nervous breakdown, Nietzsche was severely injured in the chest by trying to jump up on a saddle. “I am understating it,” he wrote a few days later, “if I say that already four to five cups of pus have come out of each wound.” -u/metallicsonatas

Trevor Brown has illustrated one version of Friedrich Nietzsche's Der Antichrist. -u/PLx77dm54AchngX

The Persian prophet Zoroaster was also known as Zarathustra—the namesake of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," the novel where Friedrich Nietzsche originated the concept of the "übermensch." -u/cmplsv

Nietzsche criticized antisemitism and German nationalism, believing in his final years he was "a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German". He claimed he and Germany were great thanks to "Polish blood in their veins" and wanted "all antisemites shot." -u/Sandvich18