Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Neitzche’s Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“A brilliant piece of investigative journalism.” —Publishers Weekly“Absorbing and highly readable. . . . Since the collapse of East Germany in 1989, the Nietzsche papers have become more accessible. Mr. Macintyre has made excellent use of them in reconstructing the story of this formidable woman.” —New York Times Book Review“Enjoyable and informative.” —New York Review of Books“Macintyre’s journey and his descriptions of what he found make compelling reading. But more fascinating still is the story Macintyre interweaves with his discovery of Nueva Germania, that of Elisabeth’s own life, and her deliberate distortions of her brother’s philosophy to make it accord with her own.” —Sunday Times“Lurid and delightful: Rider Haggard couldn’t ask for more.” —Kirkus Reviews“In 1886, Bernhard Förster and Elisabeth Nietzsche arrived in Paraguay with a boatload of German peasants. . . . The venture failed, but what became of the colony? Ben Macintyre set off to find out.” —Sunday Telegraph“Engaging and entertaining . . . Forgotten Fatherland weaves together a number of curious and disparate strands, and makes new use of the Nietzsche archive in Weimar.” —Times Literary Supplement“A sparkling idea, and its realization . . . yields vivid travelwriting and information of a ghostly but fascinating sort.” —The New Yorker