Savitri Devi
Savitri Devi (September 30, 1905 - October 22, 1982) was a Franco-Greek woman who became enamored with Hinduism and National Socialism, linking the 'Aryan invasion theory' to Adolf Hitler, and proclaiming him an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. Her writings have exerted a desicive influence over post-war National Socialism and Esoteric Hitlerism.
Biography
Born Maximiani Portas in Lyon, France, daughter of a Greek/Lombard Italian father and an English mother.
Portas formed her political sympathies and antipathies early on. From childhood throughout her life she was a passionate advocate for animal rights, thus coloring her impression of the practitioners of Kosher slaughter. Her earliest political affiliations were for Greek nationalism. Thus, during the First World War, she was outraged by the Entente's invasion of neutral Greece, especially after the Allied outrage over the German invasion of neutral Belgium.
She studied philosophy and science. On a trip to the Holy Land, in 1929, Portas realized she was a National Socialist. In 1932 she traveled to India in search of a living pagan culture. She volunteered at the Hindu Mission and wrote A Warning to the Hindus to offer support for Hindu nationalism and independence, and rally resistance to the spread of Christianity and Islam.
In 1940 she married Asit Krishna Mukherji, a Bengali Brahmin with National Socialist convictions. Together they gathered information from Allied servicemen to pass on to the Japanese.
After the war she traveled to Europe in late 1945. First to England, making contacts, visited her mother in France, Iceland where she witnessed the eruption of Mount Hekla, back to England, then to Sweden where she met with Sven Hedin.
On June 15, 1948, she took the Nord-Express from Stockholm to Germany, where she distributed handwritten leaflets encouraging the “Men and women of Germany” to “hold fast to our glorious National Socialist faith, and resist!” She penned her experience in Gold in the Furnace
Arrested for posting bills, she was tried (in Dusseldorf on April 5, 1949), for the promotion of Nationial Socialist ideas on German territory subject to the Allied Control Commision, and sentenced to two years. She served eight months in Werl prison, where she befriended her fellow Nazi and SS prisoners, (recounted in Defiance) before being released and expelled to France.
In April of 1953 she began a pilgrimage of National Socialist holy sites (bypassing the blacklist, on her reentry of Germany, by obtaining a Greek passport in her maiden name). She flew from Athens to Rome then traveled by rail over the Brenner Pass into "Greater Germany", which she regarded as "[t]he spirtual home of all racially conscious modern Aryans".
She died in Sible Hedingham, Essex, England, while en route to lecture in America. Her ashes were sent to the American Nazi Party shrine in Arlington.
Influence
Savitri Devi has come to be seen as the mother of 'Esoteric Hitlerism'" () and as pioneering its links to the occult, Green, and New Age movements.
Related topics
Julius Evola, Fascism, Shiva, Hertha Ehlert, Camillo Giuriati, Anschluss, Leonding, Linz, Braunau am Inn, Berchtesgaden, the Berghof, Obersalzberg, Munich, the Feldherrnhalle, Koenigsplatz, Nuremberg, Hermannsdenkmal, Teutoburger Wald, Externsteine, Klara Hitler, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, World Union of National Socialists, George Lincoln Rockwell, Colin Jordan, Otto Skorzeny, ODESSA, Miguel Serrano, William Pierce, Matt Koehl, Ernst Zündel, Franco Freda, Claudio Mutti, David Myatt, Kerry Bolton, Subhas Chandra Bose, Ben Klassen, William Pierce, Oswald Mosley, Richard Butler
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