Savitri Devi

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Salvitri Devi (1940)

Savitri Devi (pseudonym of Maximine Portaz, also Greekized Maximiani Portas, after marriage also Savitri Devi Mukherji ; born September 30, 1905 in Lyon , France , † October 22, 1982 in Sible Hedingham , England ) was a writer and Indian by choice, who saw in Adolf Hitler the embodiment of a Hindu god and after 1945 became the idol of the neo-Nazi scene.

Life

Maximine Portaz was the only child of her parents. Her mother came from England, the father had Italian and Greek roots; in Lyon the girl grew up in the Greek diaspora and was shaped by the Orthodox Church . Already in her school days she expressed herself against the French Revolution and its values ​​such as egalitarianism , opted for vegetarianism and campaigned for animal rights. Until the end of her life she had a committed love for certain animals such as B. at cats with simultaneous racist misanthropy.

Maximine first studied philosophy , then chemistry and received her doctorate in Lyon with a dissertation on the Greek philosopher Theophilos Kaïris (1784-1853), who had been imprisoned for his criticism of the Greek Orthodox Church.

In 1929 Maximine Portaz took part in a pilgrimage to Palestine , in the course of which she realized that she could not regard Palestine as her “holy land”. She felt repulsed there by Jews, Muslims and Christians alike.

In the 1930s she toured India to study Hinduism and felt a direct bond with the country and its people. Maximiani Portaz, by his own admission, did not feel like a member of a single nation, but as an " Indo-European ", an " Aryan ". She took India as her adopted home and called herself Savitri Devi from then on . She admiringly interpreted the Indian caste system as the "triumph of an Aryan minority over the centuries". She learned Hindi and Bengali and was convinced that only the Hindu gods could oppose the Judeo-Christian culture that she rejected.

Already drawn to National Socialism at an early age , Savitri came to the conviction that Adolf Hitler was an avatar , ie an embodiment of the Hindu god Vishnu . In 1937 she joined the Hindu Mission in Calcutta , led by Swami Satyananda Giri . In 1939, Savitri Devi published A Warning to the Hindus , in which she attacked the politically dominant Indian National Congress , warned of an Islamic flooding of the country and called for the militarization of Hindu society against the Muslim threat. That year she met the Bengali Brahmin Dr. Asit Krishna Mukherji, a publisher and admirer of Mussolini's fascist Italy , whom she married in 1940.

During the Second World War , Savitri - who at the end of her life spoke seven languages ​​fluently - wanted to do multilingual radio propaganda in Europe for the German Reich , but she did not succeed in obtaining a passport to leave British India . Together with her husband, she listened to American soldiers and passed on militarily relevant information to the Japanese embassy in Calcutta.

The defeat of the Germans in World War II was a great disappointment to Savitri, and she was deeply discouraged and desperate. In Calcutta in 1945 she prostrated herself in front of a statue of Kali , the goddess of annihilation, and implored her to avenge the fall of the Third Reich and to kill the judges of the Nuremberg Trial . She vowed to travel to Europe and spread Nazi ideology. In 1948 she finally came to Germany and announced that the Kali-Yuga (Sanskrit "Age of Kali") was drawing to a close. Hitler, in whom she saw a “god-like individual”, wanted to inflict the death blow on “the decadence of our decadence” and wanted to bring mankind a new Satya-Yuga (Sanskrit “age of truth”). She spread this idea in writings and lectures around the world until her death.

She was arrested by the Allied Control Commission for “spreading National Socialist propaganda ” and was imprisoned in Werl Prison for about six months . She then returned to France to embark on a “pilgrimage” to Germany and Austria in 1953 - which she describes in her book Pilgrimage (1958) - where she a. a. Visited Hitler's birthplace and prayed at his parents' grave. From Braunau she drove to Hitler's vacation home on the Obersalzberg, to Munich and Nuremberg. She tells of a night in a cave in the Externsteine , which she viewed as an old Germanic sanctuary. There she experienced death and rebirth and at sunrise called the names of the Vedic gods and Hitler's from a rock. She also traveled through Europe and Egypt to meet National Socialists.

In 1971 Savitri returned to India, but continued her correspondence with old Nazis and neo-Nazis in Europe and America. In 1977 her husband died. In 1982 Savitri Devi died at the age of 77 at her friend Muriel Gantry's home in Essex, England . An urn containing her ashes was brought to the United States .

During her trip, she made contact with relatives of former SS officers, such as Otto Ohlendorf's widow and the pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel , who established contact for her with SS leaders such as Otto Skorzeny and Leon Degrelle and brought her into the international neo-Nazi party. Scene introduced. The Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel reissued her writings from 1979 and published tapes with several hours of conversations with her.

One of her biographers, British historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke , sums up her legacy as follows:

“Powerful anti-Semitic ideas in the form of a world-negating gnosis, Aryan paganism as a global religion of white superiority and Hitler as a divine being within a cosmic order together form the unholy theology of their Aryan myth. Seen in this light, neo-Nazism has all the characteristics of an international sect with a religious cult. There are submission practices, initiates and martyrs, prophecies and millennial expectations and even relics . "

Works

  • Essai-Critique Sur Théophile Kaïris. Maximine Portaz, Lyon 1935
  • La simplicité mathématique. Maximine Portaz, Lyon 1935
  • A Warning to the Hindus. Hindu Mission, Calcutta 1939
  • The Non-Hindu Indians and Indian Unity. Hindu Mission, Calcutta 1940
  • L'Étang aux lotus. Savitri Devi Mukherji, Calcutta, 1940
  • Akhnaton's Eternal Message: A Scientific Religion 3,300 Years Old. AK Mukherji, Calcutta 1940
  • Joy of the Sun: The Beautiful Life of Akhnaton, King of Egypt, Told To Young People. Thacker, Spink and Co. Ltd., Calcutta 1942
  • A Son of God: The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt. Philosophical Publishing House, London 1946
  • Akhnaton: A Play. Philosophical Publishing House, London 1948
  • Defiance. AK Mukherji, Calcutta 1951
  • Gold in the Furnace. AK Mukherji, Calcutta 1952
    • German edition: Gold in the melting pot. Experiences in post-war Germany. A tribute to Germany. Editioni di Ar, Padova 1982
  • The Lightning and the Sun. Savitri Devi Mukherji, Calcutta 1958
  • Pilgrimage. Savitri Devi Mukherji, Calcutta 1958
  • Paul de Tarse, ou Christianisme et Juiverie. Savitri Devi Mukherji, Calcutta 1958
  • Impeachment of Man. Savitri Devi Mukherji, Calcutta 1959
  • Long-Whiskers and the Two-Legged Goddess, or The True Story of a "Most Objectionable Nazi" and ... Half-a-Dozen Cats. Savitri Devi Mukherji, Calcutta [1965]
  • Souvenirs et reflections d'une Aryenne. Savitri Devi Mukherji, Neudelhi 1976

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Individual evidence

  1. cf. Viktor and Viktoria Trimondi, Hitler - Buddha - Krishna (2003)
  2. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke : In the Shadow of the Black Sun. Aryan Cults, Esoteric National Socialism and the Politics of Demarcation. Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-86539-185-8 , p. 206 f. Original Black Sun, 2002.
  3. The incorrigible National Socialist Johann von Leers received a personal dedication from her as "Omar Amin", that was his Cairo name: "To Omar Amin von Leers on the birthday of Savitri Devi Mukherji 1962", in the book by Benoist-Mechin, Arabie Carrefour of the Siecles
  4. Rüdiger Sünner : Black Sun. Unleashing and abuse of myths in National Socialism and right esotericism (= Herder spectrum. Vol. 5205). Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2001, ISBN 3-451-05205-9 . P. 213f.