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Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage is a book by Savitri Devi. It is a personal account of her pilgrimage to various National Socialist "holy sites" in 1953.It was published in Calcutta in 1958.The book is dedicated "To the German People" and opens with quotations from the Bhagawad Gita.Contents 1. Linz; Leonding 2. Braunau am Inn 3. Berchtesgaden; Obersalzberg; Königssee 4. Munich 5. Landsberg am Lech 6. Nuremberg 7. Martyrs' graves, smoking chimneys and men of iron 8. Hermann's Monument and the Valley of the Eagles 9. The Rocks of the Sun
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First published January 1, 1958
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May 9, 2010
Having already read Savitri Devi's "Gold in the Furnace" and "Defiance," her book "Pilgrimage" felt like nothing new.
"Pilgrimage" follows Devi as she tours Europe visiting National Socialist "Holy Sites," historically important places for events in Nazi history. Like in "Gold in the Furnace," Devi encounters both Germans that still holding NS pride as well as idealistic enemies that anger her. Unfortunately, with "Pilgrimage" it seems she ran into much less interesting characters, after all in "Gold in the Furnace" Devi was meeting desperate German individuals still in a state of post-WW2 chaos where they had a hard time even trying to find something to eat.
In "Pilgrimage" Savitri Devi essentially goes on the same idealistic tangents and rants, surely nothing new for those that have a basic understanding of NS ideology as well as Devi's other works. It gets rather old after a while having to hear in detail multiple times about some German woman or man's deep blue eyes and platinum blond hair that Devi encounters (and envies). I can only recommend this book to those completists out there that must read every work by an author they enjoy.
"Pilgrimage" follows Devi as she tours Europe visiting National Socialist "Holy Sites," historically important places for events in Nazi history. Like in "Gold in the Furnace," Devi encounters both Germans that still holding NS pride as well as idealistic enemies that anger her. Unfortunately, with "Pilgrimage" it seems she ran into much less interesting characters, after all in "Gold in the Furnace" Devi was meeting desperate German individuals still in a state of post-WW2 chaos where they had a hard time even trying to find something to eat.
In "Pilgrimage" Savitri Devi essentially goes on the same idealistic tangents and rants, surely nothing new for those that have a basic understanding of NS ideology as well as Devi's other works. It gets rather old after a while having to hear in detail multiple times about some German woman or man's deep blue eyes and platinum blond hair that Devi encounters (and envies). I can only recommend this book to those completists out there that must read every work by an author they enjoy.
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