27 Facts About Savitri Devi

Savitri Devi was later a leading member of the Neo-Nazi underground during the 1960s.

Savitri Devi 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.

Savitri Devi was an associate in the post-war years of Francoise Dior, Otto Skorzeny, Johann von Leers, and Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

Savitri Devi was one of the founding members of the World Union of National Socialists.

Savitri Devi next traveled to Greece, and surveyed the legendary ruins.

Savitri Devi's conclusion was that the Ancient Greeks were Aryan in origin.

Savitri Devi volunteered to work at the Hindu Mission as an advocate against Judaism and Christianity, and wrote A Warning to the Hindus in order to offer her support for Hindu nationalism and independence, and rally resistance to the spread of Christianity and Islam in India.

Savitri Devi claimed that, during World War II, she enabled Subhas Chandra Bose to contact representatives of the Empire of Japan.

In 1940, Savitri Devi married Asit Krishna Mukherji, a Bengali Brahmin with Nazi views who edited the pro-German newspaper New Mercury.

Savitri Devi briefly stopped in England, then she visited her mother in France, with whom she would quarrel over the latter's support for the French Resistance.

Savitri Devi briefly returned to England, then she traveled to Sweden, where she met Sven Hedin.

Savitri Devi served time in Werl Prison, where she befriended her fellow Nazi and SS prisoners, before she was released early in August 1949 and expelled from Germany.

Savitri Devi flew from Athens to Rome and then she traveled by rail over the Brenner Pass into "Greater Germany", which she regarded as "the spiritual home of all racially conscious modern Aryans".

Savitri Devi traveled to a number of sites which were significant in the life of Adolf Hitler and the history of the Nazi Party, as well as German nationalist and heathen monuments, as recounted in her 1958 book Pilgrimage.

Savitri Devi became a friend of Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and she completed her manuscript of The Lightning and the Sun at his home in March 1956.

Savitri Devi took employment teaching in France during the 1960s, spending her summer holidays with friends at Berchtesgaden.

Savitri Devi continued to correspond with Nazi enthusiasts in Europe and the Americas, particularly with Colin Jordan, John Tyndall, Matt Koehl, Miguel Serrano, Einar Aberg and Ernst Zundel.

Savitri Devi was the first person to tell Zundel of her claim that the Nazi genocide of the Jews was untrue; he proposed a series of taped interviews and published a new illustrated edition of The Lightning and the Sun in 1979.

Savitri Devi was an animal rights activist, as well as a vegetarian from a young age, and she espoused ecologist views in her works.

Savitri Devi wrote The Impeachment of Man in 1959 in India in which she espoused her views on animal rights and nature.

Savitri Devi always held radical views with regard to vegetarianism and believed that people who do not "respect nature or animals" should be executed.

Savitri Devi believed that vivisection, circuses, slaughter and fur industries among others do not belong in a civilized society.

Savitri Devi decided to leave India, returning to Germany to live in Bavaria in 1981 before moving back to France in 1982.

Savitri Devi died in 1982 in Sible Hedingham, Essex, England, at a friend's home.

Savitri Devi was en route to lecture in the United States at the invitation of Matthias Koehl at the time of her death.

Savitri Devi's body was cremated in a simple ceremony in Colchester, Essex which was attended by Tony Williams as well as two young British Nazis.

Savitri Devi's ashes were shipped in an inscribed urn to the headquarters of the American Nazi Party in Arlington, Virginia, where they were then taken and purportedly placed by Matt Koehl next to those of George Lincoln Rockwell in a "Nazi hall of honor" in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.