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A Warning to the Hindus is a 1939 booklet by Savitri Devi.It was written to further Indian nationalism by way of Nazi ethics and spirituality. Savitri believed the Indian people to be of Aryan descent, and thus sought to promote explicitly Nazi ideals, such as ethnic purity and xenophobia, within India.
The Nazis' principal symbol was the swastika, which the newly established Nazi Party formally adopted in 1920. [1] The formal symbol of the party was the Parteiadler, an eagle atop a swastika. The black-white-red motif is based on the colours of the flags of the German Empire.
This was a belief system of arcane rituals and potent symbols, with the ancient swastika appropriated for the Nazi cause. By the time of the Third Reich , Hitler and the Nazis had evolved an entirely new faith, complete with holy book, venerated relics, and a priestly elite in the form of Himmler 's SS .
Savitri was a proponent of a synthesis of Hinduism and Nazism, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to have been an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. [5] She depicted Hitler as a sacrifice for humanity that would lead to the end of the worst World Age, the Kali Yuga , which she believed was induced by the Jews, whom she saw as the powers of evil.
Although the swastika was a popular symbol in art prior to the regimental use by Nazi Germany and has a long heritage in many other cultures throughout history - and although many of the symbols used by the Nazis were ancient or commonly used prior to the advent of Nazi Germany - because of association with Nazi use, the swastika is often ...
Heck recalls the typical audience response to a Hitler speech in his book A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days when God Wore a Swastika: We erupted into a frenzy of nationalistic pride that bordered on hysteria. For minutes on end, we shouted at the top of our lungs, with tears streaming down our faces: Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil!
The book claims that Adolf Hitler was an avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu. [3] Hitler is used to illustrate a "Man against Time" who exhibits both Lightning and Sun qualities (destructive power harnessed for a life-affirming purpose) and seek to fight historical decay by using violent, Dark-Age methods to achieve a Golden Age state of existence. [4]
The Swastika is an ancient symbol used in Dharmic religions including Hinduism and Jainism.In the 1930s and 40s, Adolf Hitler, used the Swastika as the banner for Nazi Germany and under that banner he conducted genocide against Jewish people.