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The Story of Elizabeth Nietzsche (2): Mother of the Fatherland

The second part of a two-programme study of Elizabeth Nietzsche, sister of the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietsche. After the suicide of her husband and the failure of their "Aryan utopia" in Paraguay, she returned to Germany to look after her dying brother. Over the next thirty or more years, she falsified his writings and distorted his ideas to such an extent, that to this day his name is still directly associated with European fascism. The programme uses material from the Nietzsche Archive in Weimar, formerly part of East Germany, to reveal that Elizabeth Nietzsche was wooed by both Mussolini and Hitler and how she became one of the most powerful women in the Third Reich.

English
  • Originally Aired April 8, 1992
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Network BBC Two
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