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

Behind the Bastards

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Is There a Story to Go With Your Hate?

Cevitri Devi wrote her own inciting incident if it didn't. She came to believe that all of the formerly pagan nations of Europe had to throw off their Judeo-Christian heritage and like reconnect with their pagan roots. By 1930 she finally read Mein Kamp for the very first time, which introduced Maximiani to Hitler's theories about the Aryan race. His ideas about the superior race, consistently undermined by the evil Jews, gelled remarkably well with Maximiani's own beliefs about the ancient Greeks and the Jews.

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