Want to see if he really said, "God is dead"?  Search his collection of papers at the University of Basel's Library
[DOC] [TLE] Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche - AbeBooks [PAR] Nietzsche's utterance God is dead, his insistence that the meaning of life is to be 
... chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad 
health ... descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is 
dead .....