Sometimes I find this very depressing. Nietzsche's the rare philosopher who wrote very clearly. He spent his life struggling to be absolutely clear and make himself understood. But the vast majority of secondary literature is just completely wrong, sometimes to the point of almost being libelous - I have Bertrand Russel's section on him in a History of Western Philosophy in mind as an example.
The end result is that most people have no idea what Nietzsche thought and believed, but he gets held up as an example of something he spent his life fighting.
In Poland, there was a relatively famous historian of philosophy recommended to people interested in philosophy, Władysław Tatarkiewicz and his three tomes of Historia filozofii.
His chapter on Nietzsche was also just disastrous, while reading this, I had wondered whether he even knew who Nietzsche was.
So it's not just one time thing.
I remember reading that chapter - though I wish I had forgotten it. It made me look at Russell in a negative way.
Funny because Nietzsche eventually worked himself into such a state of opposition to prevailing German thought that he claimed to be descended from Polish nobles
