Editing Savitri Devi (section)

{{Short description|Greek fascist writer (1905–1982)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Savitri Devi Mukherji
| image              = Savitri Devi, circa 1937.jpg
| caption            = Devi in 1937
| birth_name         = Maximiani Julia Portas
| birth_date         = 30 September 1905
| birth_place        = [[Lyon]], [[French Third Republic|France]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1982|10|22|1905|09|30|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Sible Hedingham]], [[Essex]], England
| citizenship        = [[French nationality law|France]] (1905–1928; renounced)<br/>[[Greek nationality law|Greece]] (1928–1982; death)
| education          = [[University of Lyon]] ([[M.A.|MA]], [[M.S.|MS]], [[PhD]])
| occupation         = Teacher, author, political activist, spy
| spouse             = [[Asit Krishna Mukherji]]
| module             = {{Infobox spy|embed=yes
| allegiance        = {{Flag|Nazi Germany}}
| service           = {{Lang|de|[[Sicherheitsdienst]]}} (SD)
| serviceyears      = 1941–1945
}}
| notable_works      = ''[[The Lightning and the Sun]]''<br />''[[Impeachment of Man]]''
}}

'''Savitri Devi Mukherji'''{{efn|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]: সাবিত্রী দেবী মুখার্জী}} (born '''Maximiani Julia Portas''', {{IPA|fr|maksimjani pɔʁtɑ|lang}}; 30 September 1905 – 22 October 1982) was a French-born Greek-Italian [[Nazi]] sympathizer, [[spy]], and author. She served the [[Axis powers]] by committing acts of espionage against the [[Allies of World War II|Allied forces]] in India. An exponent of [[esoteric Hitlerism]], she became a leading member of the [[neo-Nazi]] underground during the 1960s. Savitri was a proponent of a synthesis of [[Hinduism]] and Nazism, proclaiming [[Adolf Hitler]] to have been an [[avatar]] of the Hindu god [[Vishnu]]. 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. She was also a radical [[animal rights]] activist and [[vegetarian]].

Savitri was an associate in the post-war years of several neo-Nazi and Nazi figures. She was also one of the founding members of the [[World Union of National Socialists]]. Her writings have influenced [[neo-Nazism]] and [[esoteric neo-Nazism]]. Within neo-Nazism, she promoted [[occultism]] and [[ecology]], and her works have influenced the [[alt-right]].