After World War I, defeated Germany experienced a sense of falling from the summit into the abyss. The fear of falling has become attribute of the masses. The fear of falling is one of the strongest and earliest in man since the dawn of humanity. The fear of falling is fixed in mankind through an undeniable psychological reality and create a mental impression that leaves indelible traces. But metaphors concerning fall are far fewer than the metaphors of ascent. The fall is a limited subject. The imaginary fall very quickly becomes nausea, weakness and sickness.
The official philosopher of the Nazi movement was Friedrich Nietzsche. In Nietzsche the poet explains the thinker. He is the prototype of the vertical poet, the poet ascending to the peaks. Nietzsche clearly represents the complex of heights. Everything that moves in the air is expected to make its mark. It's an ongoing preference for anything that comes up. He invested all his energy in making the earthly universe aerial. Prominent in his work and in particular in "Thus Said Zarathustra", the following themes: the air as freedom, the psychological imaginary fall, the dialectical play between vertigo and victory, the courage to live at heights, verticality versus gravity, cold fire and the healing value of rising and growth.
At the heart of Nietzsche's philosophy is the idea of the dialectic between the high and the low. The vertical movement tear man from inside and in this way place both the upper and the lower within him. Superman must experience this inner tension. This is the source of the feeling of supremacy that Nietzsche encourages. Superman finds his way to greatness by uniting the peaks and abysses.
Nietzsche's main conclusion is: to will and to fly are the same. The end result of this longing is moral ambiguity. The sentence that sums up Nietzsche's ideas is: "The upper is the winner''.
Every philosophical doctrine is an attempt to understand and solve the problems of the hour. During the period in which Nietzsche wrote, the hot air balloons carved new paths in the skies of Europe, redefined the limitations of man and created a revolution in his worldview. An in-depth reading of Nietzsche's descriptions of "God's death" clearly reveals the reason for his original approach: Man killed God because he soared to his realms in the skies and took his place. Land's cables were unchained.
Nietzsche gave his ideas a poetic and eloquent attire. His recommendations are given different interpretations and thus found an echo in the hearts of the Nazis. The denial of existing morality, the desire for power, the "supreme man", the sanctification of war and the contempt for peace, all of these were expressed in their teachings while distorting his original ideas about human freedom. His writings about the aerial psyche gave a cohesive character to their worldview.
