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

Behind the Bastards

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The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Played Was Irony Poisoning

The greatest trick the devil ever played was irony poisoning because you just can't argue with it. Cevitri Devi took what was a dead political system that couldn't spread outside of Germany and turned it into a living, syncretic religion. She created something capable of inspiring young men to commit murder and the memory of Adolf Hitler nearly a century after his death. All these weird little subcultures, you've got Norse mythology, Chan culture, gamer culture, new age spiritualism, environmentalism, even veganism,. all these things appeal heavily to a lot of young people. It's like a tunnel spider's web.

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