Nazi pseudo-mysticism

Savitri Devi: In Search of Aryans RADIO BBC Radio 4 Scheduled for Friday 27 October

In an age when the far right is resurgent, the notion of a superior Aryan race, an idea allied to an apocalyptic worldview based on Hindu mythology, is once again loose in the world. It’s by no means the first time this has happened.

By charting the life of Nazi activist and writer Savitri Devi, journalist Maria Margaronis explores how these ideas were propagated. Devi believed the ancient Greeks were Aryans, as were Hindu Brahmins. The documentary also considers the extreme Hindutva movement, which seeks to banish Muslims from India.