Draft:Pilgrimage (book)
Template:Draft article Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:Infobox 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<ref name="Flowers2022">Template:Cite book</ref>
in 1953<ref name="Flowers2022" />
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.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>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.<ref name=":0" /> 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
translation job
one of several books she published at this time<ref name="Flowers2022" />
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.<ref name="Flowers2022" />
The book is dedicated "To the German People" and opens with quotations from the Bhagavad Gita.
<ref name="Flowers2022" />
Sold by Colin Jordan
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