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Part One: Savitri Devi: The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion

Behind the Bastards

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Greek Nationalists - Is There a Greek Community?

In 1923, a freshly graduated Maximiani Portis left France to attend college in Greece. She was just on the edge of 18 and furious with the status quo in Europe without any real clear idea of how she thought things ought to be instead. The whole effort to incorporate the Greek regions of Anatolia into the Greek nation ended in disaster and military defeat in 1922. Turkish army conducted a campaign of extermination and ethnic cleansing on their Aegean coast. They massacred some 30,000 Christians, a mix of Greeks, Armenians, and Franks as they tried to ensure no Greek independence movement would ever crop up again.

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