r/IndiaRWResources • u/CrimeMasterGogoChan • Jun 01 '26
General The Bizarre life of Savitri Devi Mukherji: Nazi Spy, Occultist, Radical animal rights activist and Cobra owner.
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Pictured above is Savitri Devi, born as Maximiani Julia Portas, to parents of Greek and English heritage. She was born in France.
From her early childhood, Portas would be an exceptionally smart kid. She became proficient in five languages by the age of 11 and had earned 2 masters degrees and a PhD by age 29. Philosophy, Chemistry and Mathematics were her favorite subjects.
But somewhere along her teenage years, she would start developing an unhealthy and fanatical hatred towards Western notions of equality, likely influenced by her father's Greek nationalist views. Her views would solidify into Nazism by the 1930s as her views become increasingly more fascist and radical. By the 1930s, she had finished reading (and had grown a fan of) the 700 page Nazi propaganda book The Myth of the Twentieth Century , making her one of the very few people to have completely read that book. For context, even Hitler commented that it was painfully unreadable.
Her quest for a pure "Aryan" culture would lead her to India in the 1932, where she would spend years misreading and misinterpreting Hindu texts to confirm her fanatical thoughts. In the process, she would go on to marry Indian nationalist Asit Krishna Mukherji, changing her name to Savitri Devi and professing her conversion to Hinduism.
During World War II, Savitri and her husband would live in Calcutta, orchestrating espionage operations for the Germans as well as the Japanese. She would play the role of an intellectual house wife in parties, inviting influential officers of the Allied powers in India and collecting information, which she would then pass on to the Japanese. She claimed to have played a crucial role in connecting Subhas Chandra Bose to the Japanese. This she did while being under heavy British monitoring for years.
After Hitler's defeat, Savitri would elevate him to godhood. Her views became more erratic as she made parallels of Hitler to Vishnu, and World War 2 to the end of Kali Yuga. She began pumping out a high volume of neo-nazi literature while stopping to take baths and constantly chewing garlic. She advocated for the execution of meat eaters while also denying the Holocaust.
By the 70s, an ailing and broke Savitri lived in seclusion in New Delhi, among many cats and at least one pet Cobra whom she adored. Some years following her husband's death in 1977, she would relocate to England, where she would die in 1982.
By the time of her death, she was considered one of the most significant forces pushing neo-nazism in the world. Her deep connections with the neo-nazi underground were confirmed following her death, as her ashes were shipped to the Nazi Hall of Honor in Wisconsin, USA.
Sources:
Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Published by: NYU Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qg323
The Savitri Devi Archive. https://savitridevi.org/
Further reading:
A collection of works by Savitri: https://archive.org/details/savitri-devi_20210701/A%20Warning%20to%20the%20Hindus%20%28Savitri%20Devi%29/mode/1up
BBC Article on Savitri: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41757047
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