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Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ben MacIntyrePublish date:2011-04-05Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)ISBN-13:9780307886446ISBN-10:307886441UPC:9780307886446Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Historical, WomenSize:7.95 x 5.19 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCN72Q3QHT
"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 Förster, 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 Führer. 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)ISBN-13:9780307886446ISBN-10:307886441UPC:9780307886446Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Historical, WomenSize:7.95 x 5.19 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCN72Q3QHT
Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (U.K.) and the bestselling author of Agent Sonya, The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, and Rogue Heroes, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

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