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

Behind the Bastards

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The Lightning in the Sun by Savitri Devi

In 1958, Savitri Devi published what would prove to be her magnum opus, the lightning in the sun. In this work, she concluded that Hitler was a man against time fighting to uphold Aryan virtues and blood against the corruption of modernity. She placed him at the center of her own Trinity, one that replaced the decadent Christian one she'd grown up despising. So these are all historical figures. Who do you think's first? Hitler. Or Akhenaten or Genghis Khan? I dare you to make less sense than the Trinity she picks.

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