Draft:Pilgrimage (book)

Pilgrimage is a book by Savitri Devi. It is a memoir and personal account of her pilgrimage to various Nazi sites in 1953. It was self-published in Calcutta in 1958. The book is dedicated "To the German People" and opens with quotations from the Bhagavad Gita.

Background and publication

Savitri Devi was

in 1953

It was the first book of Savitri Devi's since Gold in the Furnace, which had been published in 1952.Template:Sfn

Pilgrimage was self-published by Devi in 1958, in Calcutta.Template:Sfn Some sources say it was published in 1953, closer to the actual pilgrimage.Template:Sfn Its first edition was illustrated, and had 354 pages. Some sources say it was published closer to the contents it depicts, in 1953. It followed the release of her last book in 1952, Gold in the Furnace, also a memoir.Template:Sfn

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one of several books she published at this time

Contents

Pilgrimage, a memoir,Template:Sfn is a personal account of her pilgrimage to various Nazi sites in 1953. It contains her reflections on the experience.

The book is dedicated "To the German People" and opens with quotations from the Bhagavad Gita.

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Analysis

As with the other works she wrote in the 1950s, Pilgrimage contributed to

"is a more reflective and more revealing memoir of pious Nazi gnosis in a hostile world."Template:Sfn

Scholar Frederick J. Simonelli described it as one of Devi's "main works of Aryan mysticism and National Socialist philosophy".Template:Sfn