Dostoyevsky’s Raskolnikov, Nietzsche’s Superman, and specially Rossellini’s “Germany, Year Zero”, also released in 1948.

“Among them, again is the most loathsome species of the vain, the lying abortions, who make a point of representing ‘beautiful souls,’ and perchance of bringing to the market as ‘purity of the heart’ their distorted sensualism swathed in verses and other bandages; the species of ‘self-comforters’ and masturbators of their own souls. The sick man’s will to represent some form or other of superiority, his instinct for crooked paths, which lead to a tyranny over the healthy. – where can it not be found, this will to power of the very weakest?” Nietzsche - Genealogy of Morals (III, 14)

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