Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
by:
Ben Macintyre (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060975616 (006097561X)
Publish date: August 1st 1993
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Macintyre retraces the path that Elizabeth Nietzsche and her fellow German purists took into the Paraguayan jungle in their quest to create an Aryan homeland. There really isn’t much left to find, so most of the book is dedicated to documenting the life of Elizabeth. Ruthlessly, Macintyre writes o...
I remember reading this years ago, and I was reminded of it again after reading Fordlandia, which I reviewed here as well. This book does two things. It gives you a biography of Elisabeth Nietzsche, sister of the philosopher. Two, it gives you the story of the Aryan community her husband and her est...