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In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich’s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a “racially pure” colony in Paraguay together with a band of blonde-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of this “Nueva Germania” to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous adventure locating the survivors, while also tracing the colorful history of Elisabeth’s return to Europe, where she inspired the mythical cult of her brother’s philosophy and later became a mentor to Hitler. Brilliantly researched and mordantly funny, this is an illuminating portrait of a forgotten people and of a woman whose deep influence on the twentieth century can only now be fully understood.
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BEN MACINTYRE is a writer-at-large and associate editor of the Times of London and bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, and The Napoleon of Crime, among other books. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Kate Muir, and their three children.
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8 人中、6人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Half history, half travelogue
2011/4/21
形式:ペーパーバック
In this book by Ben MacIntyre we learn about Nuevo Germania, a colony founded in Paraguay in 1886 by Friedrich Nietzsche's sister and her fanatic husband. Paraguay at that time was still recovering from the devastating War of the Triple Alliance which saw Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina fighting the small country to the brink of extinction. One of many groups lured to the now-underpopulated republic Elisabeth Nietszche's followers hoped to establish an Aryan colony in the jungle based on popular race theories of the late 19th Century. Needless to say this experiment, based on faulty pseudo-science, ultimately failed. MacIntyre's journey through a wilderness rarely visited by outsiders is entertaining in itself and his writing style keeps the reader engaged throughout the narrative. Well-illustrated with photos.
13 人中、9人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Eccentric History And Travel Combined
2011/5/20
形式:ペーパーバック
This 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!
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!
3 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Stranger in a Strange Philosophical Land
2011/8/23
形式:ペーパーバック
Ben Macintyre is an easy author to read and like. His writing style flows comfortably with the narrative and he asks the kind of questions you might ask of the subjects as well. Better still, is that in this case he takes us all along on his journey to the hinterland of Paraguay where the hinterland is exactly what he was leading us.
If you read the other reviews you already know it's about Nietzsche's sister's (Elisabeth's) take on her famous philosopher brother's works and take she did! With Friedrich Nietzsche's poor health and physical breakdown early on, and her own financial world crumbling around her, the sister crept into his writings and worked them to her anti-semetic advantage; first in the South American Aryan colony of Nueva Germania in the 1880s and later back to the Fatherland where she gussied up to the likes of Mussolini and Hitler all the while reworking her brother's philosophy to her advantage.
But you know what? You'll read all this and more in the book with better writing than I can offer up here. Also, you'll get a first rate travel book with Macintyre's journey to South America to get a closer look at the forgotten Aryan colony.
Finally there's this: Freidrich Nietzsche offered something that I think applies nicely for any review: "...the worst readers," he said, "...who behave like plundering troops: they take away the few things they can use..." I'd like to add that the best readers take away so much more and value what they discover.
I enjoyed the book and learned something in spite of myself.
If you read the other reviews you already know it's about Nietzsche's sister's (Elisabeth's) take on her famous philosopher brother's works and take she did! With Friedrich Nietzsche's poor health and physical breakdown early on, and her own financial world crumbling around her, the sister crept into his writings and worked them to her anti-semetic advantage; first in the South American Aryan colony of Nueva Germania in the 1880s and later back to the Fatherland where she gussied up to the likes of Mussolini and Hitler all the while reworking her brother's philosophy to her advantage.
But you know what? You'll read all this and more in the book with better writing than I can offer up here. Also, you'll get a first rate travel book with Macintyre's journey to South America to get a closer look at the forgotten Aryan colony.
Finally there's this: Freidrich Nietzsche offered something that I think applies nicely for any review: "...the worst readers," he said, "...who behave like plundering troops: they take away the few things they can use..." I'd like to add that the best readers take away so much more and value what they discover.
I enjoyed the book and learned something in spite of myself.
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