Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism
A study of the ideology of Savitri Devi, whose beliefs combined Aryan supremacism and anti-semitism with Hinduism, social Darwinism and a fundamentally biocentric view of life. This book examines how Devi has been lionized by the fringe radical right as a foremother of Nazi ideology.
On October 29, 1922, when Benito Mussolini completed the March on Rome and was appointed prime minister of Italy, the Fascist regime began in triumph. It ended some 22 years later with the execution of Mussolini and the collapse of the German-inspired Italian Social Republic. In this edition the author maintains his disagreement with modern ......
This study offers treatment of all the major doctrines, personalities and defining features of the Spanish fascist movement, from its beginnings until the death of General Francisco Franco in 1977. The author describes and analyzes the development of the Falangist party both prior to and during the Spanish Civil War, presenting a detailed analysis ......
Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism
A biography of Savitri Devi (1905-1982), the unusual woman who believed Hitler was an avatar and attempted to combine Hinduism and anti-Semitism. The author discusses Devi's denial of the Holocaust, her appeal to neo-Nazis, and the relationship of her beliefs to animal rights, social Darwinism, and
German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises
Our understandings of culture and of the catastrophe unleashed by National Socialism have always been regarded as interrelated. For all its brutality, Nazism always spoke in the name of the great German tradition, often using such high culture to justify atrocities committed. Were not such actions necessary for the defense of classical cultural ......
German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises
In a unique and relevant approach, Aschheim (history, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem) presents new insights into the existential dilemma of German-Jewish intellectuals who, having shared in the disposition of a great German cultural tradition, found themselves victims of its National Socialism. Within this
Analyses claims made by historian Trevor Ravenscroft and others that the Holy Lance, which is said to have pierced the side of Jesus Christ, took centre stage in Hitler's life and was the focal point of Hitler's ambitions to conquer the world.
Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. Outwitting the ......
Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology
This work traces the intellectual roots of Nazism back to a number of influential occult and millenarian sects in the Hapsburg Empire during its waning years. These sects combined notions of popular nationalism with an advocacy of Aryan racism and a proclaimed need for German world-rule.
