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Savitri Devi Mukherji | |
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 Devi in 1937 | |
| Born | Maximiani Julia Portas 30 September 1905 Lyon, France |
| Died | 22 October 1982 (aged 77) Sible Hedingham, Essex, UK |
| Citizenship | France (1905–1928; renounced) Greece (1928–1982; death) |
| Education | University of Lyon (PhD, MS, MPhil) |
| Occupation(s) | Teacher, author, political activist, spy |
| Notable work | The Lightning and the Sun Impeachment of Man Defiance Gold in the Furnace: Experiences in Post-War Germany Forever and Ever: Devotional Poem |
| Spouse | Asit Krishna Mukherji |
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| Espionage activity | |
| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany |
| Service branch | Sicherheitsdienst |
| Service years | 1941–1945 |
Savitri Devi Mukherji[a] (born Maximiani Julia Portas, French: [mak.si.mja.ni pɔʁ.tɑ]; 30 September 1905 – 22 October 1982) was a French-born Greek fascist, Nazi sympathizer, and spy who served the Axis powers by committing acts of espionage against the Allied forces in India.[1][2][3] She was later a leading member of the Neo-Nazi underground during the 1960s.[1][3][4]
Savitri was a proponent of a synthesis of Hinduism and Nazism, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to have been an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.[5] She depicted Hitler as a sacrifice for humanity that would lead to the end of the worst World Age, the Kali Yuga, which she believed was induced by the Jews, whom she saw as the powers of evil.[3]
Her writings have influenced neo-Nazism and Nazi occultism.[6] Rejecting Judaism and Christianity, she believed in a form of pantheistic monism, a single cosmos of nature composed of divine energy-matter.[7] Within neo-Nazism, she promoted occultism, ecology,[8] and the New Age movement, and more contemporaneously, she has influenced the alt-right.[9] She also influenced the Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano. In 1982, Franco Freda published a German translation of her work Gold in the Furnace, and the fourth volume of his annual review, Risguardo (1980–), was devoted to Savitri Devi as the "missionary of Aryan Paganism".[1]
Savitri was an associate in the post-war years of Françoise Dior,[10] Otto Skorzeny,[10] Johann von Leers,[10] and Hans-Ulrich Rudel.[10] She was also one of the founding members of the World Union of National Socialists.[2]
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- ^ a b c "Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism", Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. NYU Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8147-3111-2, ISBN 978-0-8147-3111-6. pp. 6, 42–44, 104, 130–148, 179, 222
- ^ a b Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2003). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press. pp. 57, 88. ISBN 0-8147-3155-4. OCLC 47665567.
- ^ a b c "The new encyclopedia of the occult", John Michael Greer. Llewellyn Worldwide, 2003. ISBN 1-56718-336-0, ISBN 978-1-56718-336-8. p. 130–131
- ^ "Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen", Gary Lachman. Quest Books, 2008. ISBN 0-8356-0857-3, ISBN 978-0-8356-0857-2. p. 257
- ^ Smith, Blake (17 December 2016). "Writings of French Hindu who worshipped Hitler as an avatar of Vishnu are inspiring the US alt-right". Scroll.in.
- ^ "Gods of the blood: the pagan revival and white separatism", Mattias Gardell. Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8223-3071-7, ISBN 978-0-8223-3071-4. p. 183
- ^ "Christ, Faith, and the Holocaust", Richard Terrell. WestBow Press, 2011. ISBN 1-4497-0912-5, ISBN 978-1-4497-0912-9. p. 70-71
- ^ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (1998). Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism. NY: New York University Press, ISBN 0-8147-3110-4
- ^ "Savitri Devi: The mystical fascist being resurrected by the alt-right". BBC Magazine. 29 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity", Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. NYU Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8147-3155-4, ISBN 978-0-8147-3155-0. p. 97–106