Over the course of the 1930s, American readers confronted articles drawing connections between “Nietzsche and the Crisis,” announc-ing that “Nietzsche Held Nazis’ Prophet in War on Christ,” and warning that developments in Europe were proving Nietzscheism to be the most “serious enemy” of modern Christianity.60 “I Married a Nazi!” reported an American woman, whose once-happy marriage to a German was now destroyed by his Nietzschean hatred for all things Christian and democratic, while “Pagan Customs Revived for Nazi Weddings” quoted the passages from Zarathustra mandated as part of the
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