Nietzsche's Footfalls

Nietzsche's sister tell us that her mad brother spent his happiest hours at Weimar on the front veranda of the archive she had created. While she was busying herself turning his philosophy inside out, he enjoyed the 'beautiful view and the lights on the Ettersberg hills'. Later, in those same hills with the woods of beeches, other devoted men did marvels with opposites, building a huge city of the dead with the labour of men hardly alive - the concentration camp of Buchenwald.Stories that circle around Hitler, Wagner and many others but which centre on Nietzsche and his sister. Stories involving literature and music and the events of history. Nietzsche had called himself an 'anti-anti-semite' and the Germans 'lying racial cheats and rabble'.How, in one posthumous existence, did he become an icon for the Nazis and, in another, was it possible to deny the holocaust?Stories about posthumous existences, about the way that the movement through time can turn the dead in their coffins a hundred and eighty degrees and stifle their dreams.