Savitri Devi Mukherji

Neo-Nazi activist

Greece Lyon, France

Quick Info

ProfessionNeo-Nazi activist
NationalityGreece
Date of Birth30/09/1905
Age77 years (died on 22, Oct, 1982)
BirthplaceLyon, France
Date of Death22/10/1982

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Bio/Wiki

Birth nameMaximiani Julia Portas
Real name/Full nameSavitri Devi Mukherji
Nickname(s)
  • Savitri Devi
  • Maximine Portas
  • Maximine Portaz
Famous forProclaiming Adolf Hitler to be an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu
Cause of DeathMyocardial infarction and coronary thrombosis

Physical Stats & More

Eye ColorBrown
Hair ColorDark Brown

Educational Qualification(s)

SchoolUnknown
College/UniversityThe University of Lyon, France
Educational Qualification
Master's degree in Philosophy
Master of Science degree in Chemistry
PhD degree in Liberal Arts

Personal Life

Religion/Religious ViewsConverted to Hinduism in 1932
Food HabitVegetarian
AncestryEnglish, Greek, and Italian

Relationships & More

Marital Status (at the time of death)Widowed
Affairs/GirlfriendsFrancoise Dior (French socialite and neo-Nazi underground financier)
Marriage Date09/06/1940

Family

HusbandAsit Krishna Mukherji (1904-1977, Indian Brahmin, pro-Axis publisher and editor of New Mercury)
Parents
FatherMaxim Portas (Greek-Italian)
MotherJulia Portas (English, nÊe Nash)

Some Lesser Known Facts

1. Savitri Devi Mukherji was a French-born Greek fascist and Nazi sympathizer.
2. Her maiden name was Maximiani Julia Portaz, previously Morgan.
3. In 1914, she refused to pray for the defeat of Germany during school prayer.
4. She authored 'The Impeachment of Man' in 1959, focusing on animal rights.
5. Savitri Devi encountered Subhas Chandra Bose while working for the Hindu Mission in the early 1940s.
6. She possessed extensive knowledge of religion and history and was proficient in over eight languages.
7. Savitri Devi abstained from consuming alcohol.
8. She died of a heart attack and coronary thrombosis in Sible Hedingham, Essex, England, while en route to lecture in the United States.
9. Her ashes were placed next to those of George Lincoln Rockwell at the American Nazi Party headquarters.
10. She served the Axis powers by committing acts of espionage against the Allied forces in India during World War II.
11. She married Asit Krishna Mukherji, editor of the pro-German newspaper New Mercury, the only pro-Nazi paper in India.
12. She also authored 'The Lightning and the Sun', emerging as one of the most original and influential National Socialist thinkers of the post-World War II era.
13. She was born prematurely at 930 grams and doctors predicted she would not survive.
14. In June 1945, near Varkala on the Malabar Coast, she resolved to kill herself by walking into the ocean but changed her mind.
15. She was an associate of Otto Skorzeny in the post-war years.
16. By the late 1970s, she had developed cataracts and her eyesight was rapidly deteriorating.
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