Did Josh tell you about the Übermensch billboard?

I asked this question of Ian on Sunday in reference to a billboard Josh and I had seen on the way back from CIY. The billboard was actually advertising for a company owned by a person with the last name of Overman, but in German that becomes Übermensch. This question, unlike the others I’ve shared, led to interesting knowledge that I did not ask for. I got to learn a bit about Nietzsche’s sister, and I have since then done a bit more investigation on this woman.

Nietzsche’s sister was named Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. She was fiercely anti-semitic. She and her husband even attempted to start a pure, Aryan, anti-semitic colony in Paraguay, but it floundered and failed. She was responsible for archiving Nietzsche’s work after he went insane. She promoted his work throughout Europe and gained favor from Hitler’s regime. In fact, Hitler even attended her funeral. What I learned from Ian was that Elisabeth did not simply publish her brother’s work. She also tampered with it a bit and is to blame for some the most extreme anti-semitic statements in Nietzsche’s edited works. Not having read anything by Nietzsche myself, I can't say how much tampering she had to do to get her point across, but she certainly helped it along.