Editing Savitri Devi (section)

== Views ==
In addition to her racist and antisemitic views, Devi developed an occultist view of Nazism, as espoused in ''The Lightning and the Sun''. She disliked democracy and the current state of western civilization.{{sfn|Greer|2003|pp=130–131}} Savitri was a proponent of a synthesis of [[Hinduism]] and Nazism, proclaiming [[Adolf Hitler]] to have been an [[avatar]] of the Hindu god [[Vishnu]].{{sfn|Greer|2003|pp=130–131}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Blake |date=2016-12-17 |title=Writings of French Hindu who worshipped Hitler as an avatar of Vishnu are inspiring the US alt-right |url=https://scroll.in/article/823142/writings-of-french-hindu-who-worshipped-hitler-as-an-avatar-of-vishnu-are-inspiring-the-us-alt-right |work=[[Scroll.in]] |language=en-IN}}</ref> She was an early [[Holocaust denier]].{{sfn|Kaplan|2000|p=95}}

Devi was also an [[animal rights]] activist, as well as a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]] from a young age, and she also espoused [[Environmentalism|ecologist]] views in her works. She wrote ''[[Impeachment of Man]]'' in 1959 in India{{sfn|Greer|2003|p=131}} in which she espoused her views on animal rights and nature. According to her, human beings do not stand above the animals; in her ecologist views, humans are a part of the [[ecosystem]] and as a result, they should respect all life, including animals and the whole of nature.

She held radical views with regard to vegetarianism{{sfn|Greer|2003|p=131}} and believed that people who do not "respect nature or animals" [[Capital punishment|should be executed]]. She also believed that [[vivisection]], [[circuses]], [[Animal slaughter|slaughter]] and [[fur]] industries among others do not belong in a civilized society.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}