{"product_id":"forgotten-fatherland-the-true-story-of-nietzsches-sister-and-her-lost-aryan-colony-ben-macintyre","title":"Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony, Ben Macintyre","description":"\u003cp\u003e“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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDigging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61677926220110,"sku":"9780307886446","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9780307886446.jpg?v=1794670890","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/forgotten-fatherland-the-true-story-of-nietzsches-sister-and-her-lost-aryan-colony-ben-macintyre","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}