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adolf hitler was an austrian-born german. he fought in world war i, but when he returned home wounded, he found that germany at the time disregarded its military and that a huge power vacuum had emerged in its political center. although the german nobility and industrialists still existed, like the ruling classes in other european countries, they had lost the trust of the people in the war. the liberals of the weimar republic had also lost the trust of the people by not refusing to sign the treaty of versailles or forcing those in power to ensure that the german people reached a minimum standard of living. in the era when hitler lived, culture was in the process of fission, rational hedonism dominated, and the principles of the army were abandoned.

hitler was not a scholarly intellectual, but a self-taught man with a perverse view of the world. in this sense, he was also an intellectual, but was dismissed as a weirdo by scholars who had studied in academia. hitler's historical and world views were so powerful that even martin heidegger, the most accomplished thinker in the 20th century, was smitten by them.

many people think that heidegger was just being opportunistic. maybe that's true, but it wasn't the only way he could survive. i suspect that heidegger supported hitler because he was convinced to some extent by his views, even if they lacked profound academic analysis and were even very immature, but they were undoubtedly powerful.