{"product_id":"forgotten-fatherland","title":"Forgotten Fatherland","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A fascinating, provocative, and highly eccentric volume\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) exploring the true story of Elisabeth Nietzsche's maniacal attempt to found a utopian colony in the jungles of Paraguay in the late nineteenth century--from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePrisoners of the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1886, Elisabeth Nietzsche, the bigoted, imperious sister of the famous philosopher, founded a \"racially pure\" colony in Paraguay with her husband, anti-Semitic agitator Bernhard Förster, and a band of fair-skinned fellow Germans. More than a century later, Ben Macintyre tracked down the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains of this bizarre colony, and found a strange, tight-lipped people, still interbreeding to the point of genetic deterioration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDigging into recently opened German archives, Macintyre unfolds how Elisabeth, who returned to Germany in 1893, grafted her anti-Semitic, nationalist ideas onto her brother's philosophy, building a mythic cult around him, and how she later became a mentor to Hitler--her stately funeral in 1935 attended by a tearful Führer. Laced with mordant irony, Macintyre's brilliant piece of investigative journalism explores how the Nazis perverted Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas to justify their evil deeds, and unearths a rich and disturbing vein of the twentieth century's dark history.","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833742569677,"sku":"9780307886446","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_50ea1b4d-1bbe-48fd-b769-0f73393775a8.jpg?v=1790897535","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/forgotten-fatherland","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}