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Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony
"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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Publish Date: Apr 5th, 2011
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.95in - 5.19in - 0.70in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9780307886446
- Categories: • Historical• Women
About the Author
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.
Praise for this book
"Witty, intelligent, and told with rollicking, trenchant style."--The Boston Globe "A hoot of a book."--The Washington Post Book World "A black-comic stylist who never misses an opportunity for a malicious aside."--Newsday "A sparkling idea, and its realization . . . yields vivid travel writing and information of a ghostly but fascinating sort."--The New Yorker "Absorbing and highly readable . . . Since the collapse of East Germany in 1989, the Nietzsche papers have become more accessible. Mr. Macintyre has made excellent use of them in reconstructing the story of this formidable woman."--The New York Times Book Review "Enjoyable and informative."--The New York Review of Books "Macintyre's journey and his descriptions of what he found make compelling reading. But more fascinating still is the story Macintyre interweaves with his discovery of Nueva Germania, that of Elisabeth's own life, and her deliberate distortions of her brother's philosophy to make it accord with her own."--The Sunday Times (UK) "Engaging and entertaining . . . Forgotten Fatherland weaves together a number of curious and disparate strands, and makes new use of the Nietzsche archive in Weimar."--The Times Literary Supplement
"Lurid and delightful: Rider Haggard couldn't ask for more."--Kirkus Reviews "[A] brilliant piece of investigative journalism."--Publishers Weekly
"Lurid and delightful: Rider Haggard couldn't ask for more."--Kirkus Reviews "[A] brilliant piece of investigative journalism."--Publishers Weekly