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Title: Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan, Myth and Neo-Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke ISBN: 0-8147-3111-2 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Remarkably Balanced Treatment of a Controversial Thinker
Comment: A Jewish journalist once observed that when writing about Nazism, objectivity is regarded with suspicion and writers feel obliged to pile on the invective. Just see some of the editorial reviews above. This makes it all the more remarkable that Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke has written such a balanced book on Savitri Devi, who taught that we should love all God's creatures--except Jews. Although the author makes it clear that he does not share Devi's views, he lets her speak for herself, and he actually passes silently over some of her more unattractive and fanatical statements, which would surely be insuperable barriers to otherwise open-minded readers.
I have only two objections to this book. First, the author does not adequately discuss Devi's deep philosophical debt to Nietzsche, who provides the framework for her interpretations of Akhnaton and Hinduism and makes possible their synthesis with National Socialism. Second, he never really captures Devi's unique and powerful personality--with its wild extremes of sentimentality and savagery, cold logic and enthusiastic rapture, love of cats and hatred for most human beings--which is stamped on all of her writings. It is her personality as much as her ideas that contributes to the haunting effect that she has on so many readers.
Devi has already influenced the world we live in today--far more for her work on behalf of Hindu nationalism than National Socialism. This influence will only increase as global capitalism continues to ravage the natural world and homogenize the cultural world, thereby drawing new people to the deep-ecological rejection of anthropocentrism and to the politics of difference. This is a wonderful book. Read it, and the world will seem a richer and stranger place.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hitler's Priestess
Comment: A very well written book about the women who believed in Hitler worship. The only problem I have with the book is Devi, like Yockey, is not as important to the movement as the author claims. I've been in the movement for 25 years and can only name a few people who follow her teachings. A very few. Other than that it's great.
Rating: 1
Summary: not worth the paper it's printed on!
Comment: The back cover claims this book to be a study, but information is only given and not analyzed or "studied", the information given, if concerning Savitri Devi (SD) is taken directly from her own books or does only very indirectly, around many corners, concern her.
The author keeps calling her pagan beliefs "amoral" (of course they are, i.e. not fitting Christianity), SD's religious beliefs are portraied as only serving political ends, and the last chapter is a general, rough summary of all the bad things that various left/green/right/ufo/new age/satanist etc. groups have perpetrated, or tried to, over the last 30 years.
Conclusion: Information given can easily be obtained freely by using an internet search enginge, and money spent on this book is lost money.
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Title: Himmler's Crusade : The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race by Christopher Hale ISBN: 0471262927 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 03 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology : The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke ISBN: 0814730604 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Unholy Alliance: History of the Nazi Involvement With the Occult by Peter Levenda ISBN: 0826414095 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke ISBN: 0814731554 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival by Joscelyn Godwin ISBN: 0932813356 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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