On June 3, 1889, a man named Bernhard Förster, who had established a colony of Germans deep in Paraguay, mixed morphine with strychnine in a hotel room in the Paraguayan city of San Bernardino. He was 46 years old and his project of an Aryan colony with which he intended to Germanize the Guarani territory had just failed.
His widow, Elizabeth, reported that Förster, one of Germany’s most notorious anti-Semitic agitators, had died of natural causes. Newspapers of the time confirmed that he had committed suicide.
Elizabeth was faced with debts created by . . .
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