Defiance (book)

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Defiance is a book, first published 1951 in Calcutta, by Savitri Devi. It is a memoir of her arrest, trial, and imprisonment on the charge of distributing National Socialist propaganda in Germany in 1949.

The book is dedicated to Hertha Ehlert and opens with quotations from the Bhagawad Gita and Adolf Hitler.

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  1. The Empty Train
  2. The Arrest
  3. Questions and Answers
  4. On Remand
  5. The Glorious Day
  6. The Doors Close
  7. Humiliation
  8. Clandestine Conversations
  9. More Secret Joys
  10. The Search
  11. Anguish
  12. The Way of Absolute Detachment
  13. "We Shall Begin Again"


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Works by Savitri Devi
1930s
1940s
The Lotus Pond • The Non-Hindu Indians and Indian Unity • Joy of the Sun: The Beautiful Life Of Akhnaton, King of Egypt • A Son of God: The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt
1950s
Defiance • Gold in the Furnace • Pilgrimage • The Lightning and the Sun • Paul of Tarsus, or Christianity and Jewry
1950s
1960s
Long-Whiskers and the Two-Legged Goddess, Or the True Story of a “Most Objectionable Nazi” and . . . Half – A – Dozen Cats
1970s
Souvenirs et réflexions d’une Aryenne • And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews