I have no problem with agreeing that the Nazism to which Heidegger adhered existed only in his own mind. I think he had an expectation that some kind of movement was going to come around, the Nazis appeared, he thought "aha! this is it!", and then read all sorts of things into them that weren't there. Intellectuals do this sort of thing alot.
--- On Wed, 7/9/08, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> That's a repudiation?
>
> With Marx, it's easy to point out where the Stalinists
> corrupted, betrayed, misused, and contradicted the essence
> of Marxism, like, pick a random sentence from the MECW.
>
> With the Nazis, it's not so easy. H had an ideal;ized
> image of Nazism, to be sure, but say you pick a random
> sentence from Mein Kampf. Where exactly did the Nazis every
> deviate very far from that blueprint?
>
> People said from very early that we were warned. Him too,
> Heidegger. I mean. If he chose to overlook Der Sturmer and
> the Brownshirts terrorizing Socialist voters in 1933 and
> the Nuremberg laws in 1936 and the Gestapo and his
> Fuehrer's own words -- all this well before the war and
> death camps -- I don't think that gets him off the hook.
> Less so since he personally implemented Nazi antisemitic
> policies expressed in the Nuremberg laws while acting in an
> official capacity as Universirt Rector.
>
>