{"product_id":"forgotten-fatherland-the-true-story-of-nietzsches-sister-and-her-lost-aryan-colony-9780307886446","title":"Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A fascinating, provocative, and highly eccentric volume\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) 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 \u003ci\u003ePrisoners of the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Macintyre\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer-at-large for \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (U.K.) and the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAgent Sonya, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRogue Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460100722962,"sku":"9780307886446","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4f0b2f7e-674d-4afe-943f-a9a049088bdb.jpg?v=1730027048","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/forgotten-fatherland-the-true-story-of-nietzsches-sister-and-her-lost-aryan-colony-9780307886446","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}