This is H's Promethean phase. He means "violence" in the sense of wresting disclosure from obscurity (cf. the really great Parmenides lectures). Personally I think an Introduction to Metaphysics is one of his weakest lectures.
He changed his philosophical position considerably by the time Der Spiegel interviewed him in the 1960s, but IIRC he said at that time that the essence of National Socialism had been the confrontation of man with technology (the later understood in the sense of technocracy/scientism, not toasters), but that it had been perverted. Note that this is a pretty standard kind of fascist claim that wouldn't be far from Junger or d'Annunuzio or Pound, and not particularly Nazi (no biologism in Heidegger!). Nazism and fascism are not the same things, as Arendt liked to point out and as I have mentioned before. ;)
--- Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> A reasonable inference would seem to be that it is
> "violence" and
> "violence-doing" that constitutes "the inner truth
> and greatness of
> National Socialism".
>
> Ted
>
>
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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