{"product_id":"hitlers-priestess-savitri-devi-the-hindu-aryan-myth-and-neo-nazism-9780814731116","title":"Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe rarely told story of Savitri Devi--a Frenchwoman and one of Hitler's most powerful advocates\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Savitri Devi's 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 thought--combining Aryan supremacism and anti-Semitism with Hinduism, social Darwinism, animal rights, and a fundamentally biocentric view of life--and has resulted in curious, yet potent alliances in radical ideology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHitler's Priestess\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke examines how someone with so little tangible connection to Nazi Germany became such a powerful advocate of Hitler's misanthropy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eHitler's Priestess\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoodrick-Clarke, Nicholas:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eNicholas Goodrick-Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books on ideology and the Western esoteric tradition, including \u003ci\u003eHitler's Priestess\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOccult Roots of Nazism\u003c\/i\u003e, which has remained in print since its publication in 1985 and has been translated into eight languages.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503922647314,"sku":"9780814731116","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_234b12b7-77d0-44d0-a3bc-6dd7c86afc28.jpg?v=1730804847","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hitlers-priestess-savitri-devi-the-hindu-aryan-myth-and-neo-nazism-9780814731116","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}