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Who is Elisabeth Judas-Forster from Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 and what is their importance? Visions_of_Excess:_Selected_Writings_1927-1939 English & Literature "Elisabeth Judas-Forster | Visions of Excess: Selected Writings

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Elisabeth Judas-Forster is a sister of the philosopher Nietzsche. Bataille considers her worse than the Judas who betrayed Jesus because of her anti-Semitic falsehoods. She marries anti-Semitic Bernhard Forster in 1885 and remembers Adolf Hitler visiting her in Weimar on November 2, 1933, where she gives him a tour of Nietzsche's archives. A cousin of Nietzsche collaborates with Elisabeth Forster to reproduces Hitler's photograph in front of Nietzsche's bust in his book showing the kinship of Nietzsche's teachings and Hitler's "Mein Kampf."