Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony Review

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Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony ReviewThis is one of Ben Macintyre's earlier books, but thankfully its been re-released. Forgotten Fatherland is primarily the story of Elizabeth Nietzsche, sister of the philosopher, a smug, selfrighteous bigot of a woman whose hatefulness was only surpassed by her overall ignorance. Its to Macintyre's credit that he can write about this woman, her equally nasty husband, and her lamentable associates humorously.
The book tells the story of Elizabeth Nietzsche's determination to create a New Germany in the wilds of Paraguay. She and her husband, both of whom claimed to be her brother's greatest acolytes even though they understood almost nothing of what he wrote, wanted to create an Aryan paradise, free of Jews and other subhumans, where German culture centering around Nietzschean thought would flourish forever. In the 1880s they tricked some German peasants to move to Paraguay, where they found only swamps, snakes, insects, and disease. After the death of her appalling husband Elizabeth abandoned the colony and returned to Germany, where she eventually became a sort of Nazi priestess helping Hitler and his cohorts, who understood Nietzscheism no better than she did, co-opt it as part of the general philosophy of the Third Reich.
There are several different sections in Forgotten Fatherland: a short history of Paraguay (which had already suffered so much at the hands of various imbecilic rulers that one wonders what cruel fate meant by inflicting Elizabeth on it as well); a travelogue in which Macintyre, revealing himself to be a travel writer in the great tradition of Evelyn Waugh, makes a harrowing journey to the remains of New Germany; the story of Elizabeth Nietzsche, her brother, and their various hangers on; and finally a report on the present condition of the descendants of the German colonizers, a group of inbred scarecrows who provided shelter for various escaping Nazis after World War II, apparently including Joseph Mengele.
Despite the general nastiness of most of its subjects, Forgotten Fatherland is an enjoyable read with a lot of wit and humor. Elizabeth Nietzsche would not have liked it, but since she was so deplorable that's just one more reason to read it!Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony Overview

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