A review by primada
Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre

5.0

Ben Macintyre weaves together three parallel tales. One is how Friederich Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth ended up in Paraguay in the late 1800's with her husband and a German peasants to form an Aryan settlement. The second story is how Elisabeth Neitzsche misrepresented and twisted her brother's philosophy to make it meld with the growing Nazi movement in Germany. The third thread is Macintyre's tracking down of the descendents of the original German settlers still living in Paraguay.

Macintyre is a great story teller. The book was as entertaining as historical fiction but at the same time it made me want to learn more about Nietzsche and about Hitler's rise to power.