Draft:Pilgrimage (book)
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| Author | Savitri Devi |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Devi's pilgrimage to Nazi sites |
| Publisher | Self-published |
Publication date | 1958 |
| Publication place | India |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 354 |
| OCLC | 236261773 |
| Preceded by | Defiance |
| Followed by | The Lightning and the Sun |
Pilgrimage is a book by Savitri Devi. It is a personal account of her pilgrimage to various Nazi sites in 1953. It was self-published in Calcutta in 1958. The book is dedicated "To the German People" and opens with quotations from the Bhagavad Gita.
Contents
[edit]The book is dedicated "To the German People" and opens with quotations from the Bhagavad Gita.
It is a personal account of her pilgrimage to various Nazi sites in 1953.
Publication
[edit]It was self-published by Devi in 1958, in Calcutta.[1][2] Its first edition was illustrated, and had 354 pages.[1] Some sources say it was published closer to the contents it depicts, in 1953. It followed the release of her last book in 1952, Gold in the Furnace, also a memoir.[2]
Analysis
[edit]Scholar Frederick J. Simonelli described it as one of Devi's "main works of Aryan mysticism and National Socialist philosophy".[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Pilgrimage". Worldcat. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
- ^ a b Kaplan 1999, p. 8.
- ^ Simonelli 1999, p. 163.
Works cited
[edit]- Atkins, Stephen E. (2004). Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups. Westport: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-04852-4.
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (1998). Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3111-6.
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2002). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3124-6.
- Kaplan, Jeffrey (1 February 1999). "Savitri Devi and the National Socialist Religion of Nature". The Pomegranate. 7 (Winter): 4–12. doi:10.1558/pome.v13i7.4. ISSN 1743-1735.
- Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's. ISBN 978-1-57488-262-9.
- Simonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02285-2.