Pilgrimage

First edition, first impression.  352pp, with some black and white illustrations,  in pictorial light card covers.  8vo.  Covers are worn, rubbed all round edges and joints, spine creased and scuffed at ends, flat crease on rear panel, shelf worn and spotted.  Text block edges rounded on corners, spotted and darkened.  Internally some signs of handling and use else neat, clean and tight.  

A scarce first edition copy of Savitri Devi’s record of her post-second world war pilgrimage to Germany.  Savitri Devi Mukherhi (born Maximiani Julia Portas) was a French-born writer,  Nazi sympathiser and spy.  During the second world war she served the Axis cause by spying against the Allied forces in India.  An exponent of Esoteric Hilterism, she was a leader of and influential among the neo-Nazi underground movement in the 1960s.  A proponent of a blending between Hinduism and Nazism, she saw Adolf Hitler as a sacrifice for humankind which would end the worst age the world had seen, a state which she blamed upon the Jewish nation.  She was also a radical and committed animal rights activist and vegetarian.