Forgotten Fatherland by Ben Macintyre

Forgotten Fatherland by Ben Macintyre

A fascinating, provocative, and highly eccentric volume (The New York Times) exploring the true story of Elisabeth Nietzsche's maniacal attempt to found a utopian colony in the jungles of Paraguay in the late nineteenth century--from the bestselling author of Prisoners of the Castle.

In 1886, Elisabeth Nietzsche, the bigoted, imperious sister of the famous philosopher, founded a racially pure colony in Paraguay with her husband, anti-Semitic agitator Bernhard F rster, and a band of fair-skinned fellow Germans. More than a century later, Ben Macintyre tracked down the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains of this bizarre colony, and found a strange, tight-lipped people, still interbreeding to the point of genetic deterioration.

Digging into recently opened German archives, Macintyre unfolds how Elisabeth, who returned to Germany in 1893, grafted her anti-Semitic, nationalist ideas onto her brother's philosophy, building a mythic cult around him, and how she later became a mentor to Hitler--her stately funeral in 1935 attended by a tearful F hrer. Laced with mordant irony, Macintyre's brilliant piece of investigative journalism explores how the Nazis perverted Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas to justify their evil deeds, and unearths a rich and disturbing vein of the twentieth century's dark history.

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ISBN 13	9780307886446
ISBN 10	0307886441
Title	Forgotten Fatherland
Author	Ben Macintyre
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2011-04-05
Number of pages	320
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