39 Facts About Miguel Serrano

Miguel Joaquin Diego del Carmen Serrano Fernandez, was a Chilean diplomat, writer, neopagan occultist, defender of a doctrine that supposedly would be true Christianity, the "Kristianism" and fascist activist.

Miguel Serrano became convinced that Hitler had not died in 1945 but had secretly survived and was living in Antarctica.

In 1953, Miguel Serrano joined the Chilean diplomatic corps and was stationed in India until 1963, where he took a keen interest in Hinduism and wrote several books.

Miguel Serrano was later made ambassador to Yugoslavia and then Austria, and while in Europe made contacts with various former Nazis and other far-rightists living on the continent.

Miguel Serrano became a prominent organiser in the Chilean neo-Nazi movement, holding annual celebrations of Hitler's birthday, organising a neo-Nazi rally in Santiago, and producing a neo-Nazi political manifesto.

Miguel Serrano wrote a trilogy of books on Hitler in which he outlined his view of the Nazi leader as an avatar.

Miguel Serrano remained in contact with neo-Nazis elsewhere in the world and gave interviews to various foreign far-right publications.

In 2008, Miguel Serrano was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Universidad Mayor of Santiago.

Miguel Joaquin Diego del Carmen Serrano Fernandez was born on 10 September 1917.

Miguel Serrano had two younger brothers and a sister, who were then all raised by his paternal grandmother, Fresia Manterola de Serrano, moving between a Santiago townhouse and a 17th-century country mansion in the Claro Valley.

The school had been heavily influenced by Prussian staff members who had arrived in the late 19th century, with Miguel Serrano attributing his later Germanophilia to this early exposure to German culture.

Miguel Serrano grew critical of Marxism and left-wing politics, instead being drawn to the Nacistas after their failed coup in September 1938.

Miguel Serrano began writing for their journal, Trabajo, and accompanied their leader, Jorge Gonzalez von Marees, on his speaking tours across Chile.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, in which Chile remained neutral, Miguel Serrano expressed support for Nazi Germany; from July 1941 he launched a fortnightly pro-Nazi publication, La Nueva Edad.

Miguel Serrano developed an interest in forms of religious or spiritual practice, including both Western esotericism and Hinduism.

In 1951, Miguel Serrano travelled to Europe, and in Germany visited various sites associated with the Nazi Party, including Hitler's Berlin bunker, Hitler's Berghof home, and Spandau Prison, where Rudolf Hess and other prominent Nazis were then imprisoned.

Miguel Serrano hoped to gain a posting to India, a land which he considered to be a source of great spiritual truths.

Miguel Serrano was successful in this, and remained in India until 1962.

Miguel Serrano had engaged in further correspondence with Jung between 1957 and 1961.

Miguel Serrano established friendships with a number of individuals involved in the old Nazi movement, including Leon Degrelle, Otto Skorzeny, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Marc "Saint-Loup" Augier, and Hanna Reitsch.

Miguel Serrano discussed issues with the ancient astronaut proponent Robert Charroux.

Later that year, Miguel Serrano was dropped from the country's diplomatic service.

The loss of his diplomatic position, coupled with the establishment of a Marxist government in Chile, led Miguel Serrano to take a revived interest in Nazism.

Miguel Serrano began reading a number of recently published books that purported to identify links between Nazism and occultism.

Miguel Serrano nevertheless found that the Pinochet administration was not interested in his neo-Nazi and Esoteric Hitlerist ideas.

Miguel Serrano produced a trio of books that came to be known as his "Hitler Trilogy": El Cordon Dorado: Hitlerismo Esoterico, Adolf Hitler, el Ultimo Avatara, and Manu: "Por el hombre que vendra".

Miguel Serrano increasingly associated with old Nazis living in Chile as well as with their neo-Nazi sympathisers.

Miguel Serrano began organising annual celebrations of Hitler's birthday at a rural retreat in Chile.

Miguel Serrano was the subject of a feature in The Flaming Sword, a magazine issued by the Black Order, a neo-Nazi Satanist group established by the New Zealander Kerry Bolton.

One of the prominent far-right Heathens to be influenced by Miguel Serrano's ideas was Jost Turner.

On 28 February 2009, Miguel Serrano died after suffering a stroke in his apartment in the Santa Lucia Hill sector of Santiago, the capital.

At the age of 25, Miguel Serrano married Carmen Rosselot Bordeau on 11 September 1942, in Santiago.

In 1951, Miguel Serrano met Irene Klatt Getta in Santiago, who played a significant role in his life and to whom he dedicated a large part of his work.

In 2000, Serrano married his second wife, Maria Isabel Perez Quintela, known as Sabela P Quintela, who currently serves as his literary executor.

The historian of religion Arthur Versluis noted that Miguel Serrano was "the most important figure" in esoteric Hitlerism after Savitri Devi.

The historian Rafael Videla Eissman proposed that a plaque commemorating Miguel Serrano be erected on the western side of the Cerro Santa Lucia, although in June 2014 the municipality of Santiago rejected the idea.

Miguel Serrano insists that there has been a vast historical conspiracy to conceal the origins of evolved humankind.

Miguel Serrano contends that the last documents relating to them were destroyed along with the Alexandrian Library, and that, latterly, these beings have been misunderstood as extraterrestrials arriving in spaceships or UFOs.

Miguel Serrano refers to Genesis 6.4: "the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them".