> Among the infamous pantheon of Nazi artists and intellectuals that espoused antisemitism in the nineteenth and twentieth century, the philosopher Frederick Nietzsche is the subject of heated controversy. The Nazis claimed his work, along with that of Richard Wagner, as an antisemitic precursor that sought to deprive German Jews of their citizenship and expel them from Germany.
> In recent decades, however, there has been a swing in a different direction. A number of Nietzsche scholars have argued that he was not only free of racist sentiments but was also a principled defender of Jews against the antisemitic racial onslaught of his former mentor, Richard Wagner.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17496977.2018.1447346
And of course, in the Current Year.
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/nietzsches-jewish-problem-between-anti-semitism-and-anti-judaism
> Among the infamous pantheon of Nazi artists and intellectuals that espoused antisemitism in the nineteenth and twentieth century, the philosopher Frederick Nietzsche is the subject of heated controversy. The Nazis claimed his work, along with that of Richard Wagner, as an antisemitic precursor that sought to deprive German Jews of their citizenship and expel them from Germany.
> In recent decades, however, there has been a swing in a different direction. A number of Nietzsche scholars have argued that he was not only free of racist sentiments but was also a principled defender of Jews against the antisemitic racial onslaught of his former mentor, Richard Wagner.