-Savitri Devi: Hitlerism and Hinduism

I shall now relate an episode of my own life involving a youngster of a very low Hindu caste... The youngster, named Khudiram, after one of the fighters for Indian independence, was a typical specimen of the masses of Bengal: dark skinned, flat-faced... He was my servant.

One day - in glorious 1940 - ... he told me: "I really wish your Leader will win the war! I want him to, and I pray to all the gods that he does!"

I was dumb founded. I had never spoken about Adolf Hitler to Khudiran - a non-Aryan if any! I presumed the lad knew there was a war going on in faraway Europe - everybody knew it - and I was not over-astonished at his taking sides with us... and Bengal was a bastion in the struggle against British rule. But i never expected such emphasis in the pro-German feelings of a Bengali village lad.

I asked him: "Why are you so strongly on Leader's side? Is it just because he is winning?" (The French campaign was then nearly over.)

Khudiram said: "No, I would be on his side even if he were defeated, but I pray all the gods he may win."

"And why? What do you know about the war?" And the illiterate lad replied to my further surprise: "I may be an ignorant boy. But i met one in the market much older than I; he must be about twenty - a "learned" boy, who can even speak a little English, and he told me that your Leader was fighting this war in Europe, and he told me that your Leader was fighting this in Europe so that he might do away with the Bible and in its place set up, for all the West - The Bhagavad-Gita!

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