Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism

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The rarely told story of Savitri Devia Frenchwoman and one of Hitlers most powerful advocates In this window onto the roots and evolution of international neo-Nazism Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke reveals the powerful impact of one of fascisms most creative minds. Savitri Devis influence on neo-Nazism and other hybrid strains of mystical fascism has been continuous since the mid-1960s. A Frenchwoman of Greek-English birth Devi became an admirer of German National Socialism in the late 1920s. Deeply impressed by its racial heritage and caste-system she emigrated to India where she developed her racial ideology in the early 1930s. Her works have been reissued and distributed through various neo-Nazi networks and she has been lionized as a foremother of Nazi ideology. Her appeal to neo-Nazi sects lies in the very eccentricity of her thoughtcombining Aryan supremacism and anti-Semitism with Hinduism social Darwinism animal rights and a fundamentally biocentric view of lifeand has resulted in curious yet potent alliances in radical ideology. As one of the earliest Holocaust deniers and the first to suggest that Adolf Hitler was an avatara god come to earth in human form to restore the world to a golden ageDevi became a fixture in the shadowy neo-Nazi world. In Hitlers Priestess Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke examines how someone with so little tangible connection to Nazi Germany became such a powerful advocate of Hitlers misanthropy. Hitlers Priestess illuminates the life of a woman who achieved the status of a prophetess for her penchant for redirecting authentic religious energies in the service of regenerate fascism.