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Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche

Macintyre describes his 1991 journey to the Paraguayan site where Elisabeth Nietzsche and her husband founded a utopian Aryan colony in 1886. He also traces her return to Europe in 1889 to care for her sick brother, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and her orchestration of his rise to fame. Photos.

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adult
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medium · 272 pages

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