"[A] superb study. . . . Goodrick-Clarke has done a service to
sanity, even if the gullible will go on swallowing [Devi's]
recycled poison rather than his antidote."
"--Times Literary Supplement"
"An excellent, thought-provoking volume. . . . We may readily
accept that Devi was a revolting creature. But it is as well that
we realise that such demons in human form existed and still do
exist."
"--Independent"
"An admirably cool-headed history of an inflammatory subject. .
. . It is likely to stand as the definitive study of a subject that
a lesser author would have exploited for maximum
sensationalism."
"--Gnosis"
"An engrossing, disturbing, and important book. Well-researched
and evocatively told, the strange story of Savitri Devi is a mirror
of the twentieth century's dark undercurrents and deserves to be
widely read and pondered."
"--Robert S. Ellwood, University of Southern California"
"[A] provoking volume."
--"Bulletin of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust
Research, No. 10"
In this window onto the roots and evolution of international
neo-Nazism, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke reveals the powerful impact of
one of fascism's most creative minds.
Savitri Devi's influence on neo-Nazism and other hybrid strains
of mystical fascism has been continuos 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 Naziideology.
Her appeal to neo-Nazi sects lies in the very eccentricity of her
thought - combining Aryan supremacism and anti-Semitism with
Hinduism, social Darwinisn, animal rights, and a fundamentally
biocentric view of life - and 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 avatar-- a god come to earth in
human form to restore the world to a golden age - Devi became a
fixture in the shadowy neo-Nazi world. In Hitler's Priestess,
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke examines how someone with so little
tangible connection to Nazi Germany became such a powerful advocate
of Hitler's misanthropy.
Hitler's 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.
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