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| | Amazon.com: Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche: Books: Ben MacIntyre (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | In 1991 Macintyre, once a foreign-affairs reporter for Britain's Sunday Correspondent, tracked down the survivors of Nueva Germania, as the colony was called; he found a strange, tight-lipped people, still interbreeding to the point of genetic deterioration. |
 | | In 1886, Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth, together with her husband, Bernhard Foerster, and 14 German families, founded a colony in Paraguay that they christened "Nueva Germania." Their purpose was to escape a fatherland they believed to be in serious decline and to live in a place where their beliefs--anti-Semitism, vegetarianism, nationalism, and Lutheranism--could flourish. |
 | | In fact, the colony of Nueva Germania really acts only as an incidental prop or set-up for the real meat of the story: What happens to Nietzsche the man, the myth and the philosophy under the willing and able hands of his manipulative and single-minded sister. |
| www.amazon.com /Forgotten-Fatherland-Search-Elisabeth-Nietzsche/dp/0374157596 (1943 words) |
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