Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2020-02-13
Books mentioned on Part Two: Savitri Devi: The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion
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Robert Evans discussed Gold in the Furnace by Savitri Devi, Hitler's Priestess by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Long-Whiskers and the Two-legged Goddess, Or, The True Story of a "most Objectionable Nazi" And... Half-a-dozen Cats by Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun by Savitri Devi, and Impeachment of Man by Savitri Devi, and criticized Young Hitler by August Kubizek.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Gold in the Furnace
Gold in the Furnace by Savitri Devi is a post-war ideological text written by a prominent esoteric Nazi sympathizer that details her travels through devastated post-war Germany and her mystical interpretation of National Socialism.
Discussed“She later wrote in her book gold in the furnace that the gods had ordained that I should have a glimpse of ruins, bitter irony of fate.”
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Hitler's Priestess
Hitler's Priestess by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke is a detailed biographical study of Savitri Devi and her efforts to synthesize National Socialism with esoteric religious ideas.
Discussed“One of these conversations, that Seeitri had with a former Vermach soldier is worth me reading out here, and I'm going to quote again from the book Hitler's Priestess.”
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Long-Whiskers and the Two-legged Goddess, Or, The True Story of a "most Objectionable Nazi" And... Half-a-dozen Cats
Long-Whiskers and the Two-legged Goddess, Or, The True Story of a 'most Objectionable Nazi' And...
Discussed“For example, she retold the story of her first trip back to Europe in the children's fable Long Whiskers and the Two-Legged Goddess, whose heroine is a cat-loving Nazi named Heliodora.”
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The Lightning and the Sun
The Lightning and the Sun by Savitri Devi is an esoteric 1958 work that blends Nazi ideology with a cyclical view of history, featuring a dedicated tribute to Adolf Hitler.
Discussed“In 1958, she published what would prove to be her magnum opus, the lightning in the sun. In this work, the ideas Cvitri had been rattling around in her head all finally came together.”
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Impeachment of Man
Savitri Devi's book The Impeachment of Man explores the intersection of animal rights, environmentalism, and early ideological developments before her overt alignment with Nazism.
Discussed“Some of her early books that she wrote when the Nazis were in power, but before she was explicitly a Nazi, like The Impeachment of Man, don't explicitly reference Nazism. And these books, like The Impeachment of Man, is still kind of popular among chunks of the new age and environmentalist movements today.”
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Young Hitler
Critiqued“She used several segments from August Kubisc's ill-advised book, The Young Hitler. I knew Kubazc was Hitler's friend when they were like teenagers, HBO series. Um, he wrote a terrible book.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“She would have written Shades of Gray though if she had been around. I wish she had. Like it would if that's the better world.”
“I found I found a book called Lightning on the Sun. That's pretty close. It's probably Nazi. It's about a guy named Glenn who owns a store.”