They were the ones who turned the gas on others to purify the race for Aryan supermen. Nietzsche did not see man made in God s image, because he did not see God. Instead he saw man like an animal, only a little more complicated. Nietzsche wanted art and poetry to replace religion. It didn t happen.
Aesthetic appreciation lacks ethical understanding.
Today the Brooklyn Museum sponsors a show called Sensation in which an artist decorates the Madonna with elephant dung. It creates a sensation, but few take it seriously enough to call it art. We gawk, but we don t revere. Elie Wiesel found that many of his college classes were made up of students who were children of survivors of the Holocaust who came to him to learn what their parents dared not discuss. They want Wiesel to give them insights in understanding their parents silence about the evil they endured.