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"Transferring Ideal Goods of our People to New Ground" - The Colony Nueva Germania in Paraguay (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1886, Elisabeth Nietzsche and her husband Bernhard Förster founded the anti-semitic colony Nueva Germania. Up to 140 settler families took part in the endeavor to realize an utopian settlement in the heart of Paraguay. Some of the families wanted to leave the German Empire out of political discontent forever, others tried to...