Savitri Devi Mukherjee (1905–1982) was a French-born Greek fascist, teacher, writer and Nazi supporter. In 1932, she converted to Hinduism and from then on she became a fanatic who believed Adolf Hitler to be an incarnation of the Hindu god, Lord Vishnu. On 22 October 1982, he breathed his last at his friend’s house in Sibley Hedingham, Essex, UK, before dying of a heart attack.
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Savitri Devi Mukherjee was born Maximiani Julia Portaz in Lyon, France on Saturday, 30 September 1905 (age 77 years at death). When Maximin was born, he weighed only 930 grams and was not expected to survive. As a child, Savitri developed political views at an early stage and supported animal rights until her death. He graduated from a Catholic school in Lyon and earned two master’s degrees in philosophy and chemistry from the University of Lyon in France. In 1928, he graduated from the same university in France with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Liberal Arts. After graduating, she traveled to Greece, where she became acquainted with Heinrich Schliemann, a German archaeologist. She was fascinated by his discovery of the Swastika in Anatolia. He concluded that the ancient Greeks were of Aryan origin. She became politically associated with Greek nationalism. When Maximin came to India, she learned the Bengali language at Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan Ashram in Bengal, where she assumed the surname Savitri Devi at the suggestion of her students.
Savitri Devi’s childhood picture
Physical Appearance
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye colour: brown
Family
parents and siblings
Maximiani Julia Portaz’s father, Maxime Portaz, was Greek-Italian. Maxine Portaz died after suffering paralysis on 24 February 1932 in Lyon, France. His mother, Julia Portaz, was an English woman of Italian descent. Julia died in Lyons on 25 March 1960.
A photograph of Julia Portaz, mother of Savitri Devi, from 1936
husband and children
On 9 June 1939, Savitri was married in Calcutta to Asit Krishna Mukherjee, a Bengali Brahmin who hailed from Narayanganj, East Bengal. Asit married Savitri so that he could save her from being exiled. Asit published several pro-Axis magazines and worked as editor for a pro-German newspaper called New Mercury. After The New Mercury was closed down by the British government, Mukherjee became publisher of The Eastern Economist, an Indian business weekly newspaper in collaboration with the Japanese League, from 1938 to 1941. He used his relationship with Subhash Chandra Bose. To bring Indian nationalists and Japanese officers into contact with each other, thus encouraging the formation of the Indian National Army. Later, Asit became a fortune-telling astrologer who published his wife’s books. On 21 March 1977, Asit Krishna Mukherjee died and was survived by Savitri Devi Mukherjee, who moved to New Delhi to live off her deceased husband’s pension.
Savitri Devi’s husband, Asit Krishna Mukherjee
relationships/affairs
Savitri’s sexuality has been the subject of some speculation. During her imprisonment in 1962, she became close to Françoise Dior, a former Belsen wardress who was condemned as a war criminal, and also the niece of fashion designer Christian Ernest Dior. François Dyer claimed to be Savitri’s lover.
nationality
Since he was born in France in 1905, Savitri held French citizenship, which he renounced in 1928. Also in 1928, he received Greek citizenship and held it until his death (1982).
religious viewpoint
Maximiani religiously followed Hinduism and Nazism. She converted to Hinduism in 1932.
adoption of nazi ideology
In 1929, Savitri joined a pilgrimage to Palestine, during which she witnessed the Palestine riots and expressed sympathy for the Nazis. Later, he decided to become a Nazi, which he did. In 1948, Savitri somehow managed to enter Allied-occupied Germany. In 1962, Savitri was among other members arrested for distributing thousands of pro-Nazi leaflets which read,
“One day we will rise and win again! Hope and wait! Heil Hitler!”
Years later, she admitted that she was happy to be arrested by the British occupation authorities because Savitri’s arrest brought her closer to other imprisoned Nazi comrades.
Savitri Devi with other Nazi comrades of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Exploring Paganism and Aryan Culture – Travel to India
In 1932, he traveled to India in search of Paganism. She strongly believed that India best represented racial separation as she was desperate to learn more about Aryan culture. She soon changed her name to Savitri Devi and volunteered to work as an advocate against Judaism and Christianity, which she believed were anti-Aryan. In the 1930s, when Savitri was in Kolkata, she worked for the Hindu Nationalist Movement, which served as a center for all Hindu nationalist campaigns and missionary activities. Along with her husband Asit, she disseminated pro-Axis propaganda and was engaged in intelligence gathering about the British in India. She was associated with various Hindu groups, including the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS. During World War II, along with her husband, she helped Subhash Chandra Bose, leader of the Axis-allied Indian National Army, contact representatives of the Empire of Japan. Meanwhile, Savitri offered her services to Swami Satyananda, the director of the Hindu Mission. He allowed Savitri to mix Nazi propaganda with his talks on Hindu identity and he gave lectures in Hindi and Bengali, in which he talked about Aryan values and quoted Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto, Mein Kampf. Added to the quotes. Hitler. During her stay in India, she lived in many cities like Madras, Calcutta, Delhi, Jalandhar and Pondicherry.
Neo-Nazi animal rights activist
Despite holding strong anti-Aryan beliefs, Savitri always believed that humans were not above animals. In 1959, he wrote a book titled ‘The Impeachment of Man’, which was based on animal rights, in which he presented his ecological views about respecting animals and nature and hanging those who insult them. He strongly believed that vivisection, circus, slaughter and fur industry etc. do not belong in a civilized society.
Adolf Hitler- incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu
In 1915, at the age of 10, he wrote ‘A Bas les Allies!’ Vive l’Allemagne!’ (‘Fall to the Allies! Long live Germany!’) in chalk on a wall of the Gare des Brotteaux in Lyons. She became fascinated with the growing Nazi Party in Germany. In 1958, he wrote a book titled ‘The Lightning and the Sun’, in which he considered Adolf Hitler to be the greatest European of all time and claimed that Adolf Hitler was an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who was sent to prepare the world . For the end of Kaliyuga (“Age of Darkness”), which is the final era of the Yuga cycle according to Hindu scriptures.
‘The Lightning and the Sun’ is a book written by Savitri Devi in 1958
literary work
In 1935, he wrote his first French-language book ‘Essay critique sur Théophile Kyris’, which was also his first doctoral thesis on the life and ideas of the Greek teacher and philosopher Theophilos Kyris. His second book was also his doctoral dissertation titled La Simplicité Mathématique. He wrote several other books such as ‘A Warning to the Hindus’ (1936), ‘The Non-Hindu Indians and Indian Unity’ (1940), and ‘Long-Whiskers and the Two-Legged Goddess or the True Story of a Most The Offensive Nazi” and…Half a Dozen Cats” (1965).
‘Long-Whiskers and the Two-Legged Goddess..’ is a book written by Savitri Devi
Death
By the 1970s, Savitri had developed cataracts which were causing her vision to deteriorate. In 1981, he decided to move to Bavaria in Germany; However, his stay in Germany was cut short after he moved back to France the following year. On 22 October 1982, Savitri died in Sibley Hedingham, Essex, UK, after suffering a heart attack and coronary thrombosis at the age of 77. His ashes were taken to the ‘Nazi Hall of Honour’ and placed next to the American ashes. -Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell at the headquarters of the American Nazi Party in Arlington, Virginia.
Death certificate of Savitri Devi
Facts/General Knowledge
- Her name is also spelled Maximiani Julia Portus.
- From an early age, she hated all forms of egalitarianism, which is the principle of treating all individuals as equal without any difference due to gender, economic status, and other factors. In 1978, during an interview with Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel about his beliefs, Savitri said,
A beautiful girl is not equal to an ugly girl.”
- Savitri led a vegetarian life since childhood.
- When Savitri lived in Delhi, she lived in a flat above a garbage dump and fed stray cats. She had a black cat named Black Velvet, another named Long-Whiskers, and another named Miu, just to name a few.
Savitri Devi’s collection of cats
- In 19947, he spent two nights at Mount Hekla, Iceland, and witnessed the volcanic eruption. Talking about his experience in Iceland in one of his books, he wrote,
The basic sound of creation is ‘Om’. Every two or three seconds the volcano says, ‘Om! Om! Om!’ And the earth trembles beneath your feet all the time.
- Savitri’s parents taught her French and English. As she grew up, she taught herself Modern Greek and Ancient Greek. Later, she became fluent in a total of eight languages, including Italian, German, Icelandic, Hindi and Bengali. She was also conversant with the knowledge of about twenty other languages such as Urdu and other Indian languages.
- On 8 August 1962, after volunteering at the Cotswold founding camp of the WUNS, Savitri Devi was banned from Britain.
Savitri Devi’s passport after being banned from going to Europe
- Savitri Devi did not like it when people called her only by the name “Devi”. On May 13, 1979, she wrote a letter to Martin Kerr, an American neo-Nazi, telling him what her name meant and what she wanted to be called.
A letter from Savitri Devi to Martin Kerr (1 of 2)
Next part of Savitri Devi’s letter to Martin Kerr (2 of 2)
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