Forgotten Fatherland
The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche

By Ben Macintyre

Front Cover:

This is an interesting biography about a woman and a country. This book was published in 1993 by Harper Perennial. The soft cover book measures 5 ¼ inches by 8 inches and contains 256 pages. The cover shows minor signs of wear and is securely attached. The pages show no signs of rips or tears. There is a mark on the bottom edges of the pages (remainder?). Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is good.


Top Left: The first colonists of Nueva Germania, c. 1886.
Bottom Left: Elisabeth (second from left) at a morning meeting with the chief colonists
Top Right: Main Street, Nueva Germania, 1890
Bottom Right: Main Street, Nueva Germania, 1991

Contents:

    Foreword
  1. Asuncion Docks, Paraguay, 15 March 1886
  2. Terra Incognita
  3. Up the Creek
  4. The White Lady and New Germany
  5. Knights and Devils
  6. Elisabeth in Llamaland
  7. Will to Power
  8. Mother of the Fatherland
  9. Nueva Germania, March ;1991

    10. Notes
    Index


Top: Forsterhof, the large colonial mansion which Forster built for Elisabeth in 1888.
Bottom: The ruins of Forsterhof, 1991, with a street sign in memory of the colony’s founder.


Top Left: The Germans of Nueva Germania have become as addicted to yerba mate or Paraguayan tea, as the Paraguayans themselves
Bottom Left: Heinrich and Martha Schutte with their grandchildren, Nueva Germania, 1991.
Top Right: Pablo Flascam plays The Memmonite Waltz on a squeeze box brought by his grandfather from Chemnitz in 1886
Bottom Right: Magdalena and Bernhard Fischer, Nueva Germania, 1991


Top Left: Elisabeth c. 1925
Bottom Left: Adolf Hitler gazes thoughtfully at the bust of Fred Nietzsche.
Top Right: Elisabeth, aged 87, greets Adolf Hitler outside the Nietzsche Archive after the Nazis come to power.
Bottom Right: Elisabeth on her deathbed, November 1935. Wreaths were sent by all the most prominent Nazis.

Excerpt - Back Cover:
In 1886 Elisabeth Niezsche, sister of the famous philosopher and friend of Richard Wagner, traveled with a select group of blond-haired, blue-eyed Germans to the remote Paraguayan wilderness to found an Aryan colony she called Nueva Germania. In Forgotten Fatherland Ben Macintyre tracks down the descendants of this early racial experiment, still living in Nueva Germania and breeding among themselves. Many have maintained the language, customs, and ideals that first brought their ancestors over from Europe more than one hundred years ago…
End excerpt


Top: You could see from the Fuhrer’s face how deeply moved he was…
Bottom: The Nietzsche memorial built in the sixth year of the Third Reich under the direction of Adolf Hitler…

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