Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre


Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
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Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche Reviews

  • salki

    I loved this book. It was written with a light hand, interspersed with personal comments, yet is nonetheless an interesting and compelling account of a horrid woman, her horrid husband and their hand in the rise of Nazism. I had always thought Nazism owed its rise to

  • Susan Jane

    Ben Macintyre has written a fascinating account of the life of German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsches sister Elisabeth Nietzsche By all accounts, she was a domineering and forceful personality who co led a group of Germans to Paraguay to start a new colony.

  • Maria E. Arnstein

    I was raised in S America as my family of mixed Jewish Christian heritage had migrated there to join an Uncle who had done so starting in 1922. We always knew about the Nazi and German in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay but it was interesting to learn about

  • David Austin

    Normally I love Macintyres books, this one is an exception. It seems laboured, heavy.. as if writing it felt like just work for the author. This is in sharp contrast to his other excellent books.

  • sally tarbox

    An interesting and informative work, following Elisabeth, the self aggrandizing younger sister of the philosopher. As a young wife, she was an enthusiastic supporter of her anti semitic husband, Bernhard Forster, in his scheme to found an Aryan colony in the wilds of