Counter-Currents
Gold in the Furnace:
Experiences in Post-War Germany
Savitri Devi
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2021
320 pages
Edited by R. G. Fowler
The Savitri Devi Archive’s 2006 edition of Gold in the Furnace, long out of print, has been reprinted in hardcover & paperback by Counter-Currents!
About Gold in the Furnace:
Gold in the Furnace is an ardent National Socialist’s vivid account of life in occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War II, based on extensive travels and interviews conducted in 1948 and 1949.
Savitri Devi is scathing in her description of Allied brutality and hypocrisy: countless German civilians died in Allied firebombing; millions more perished after the war, driven from their homes by Russians, Czechs, Poles, and others; more than a million prisoners of war perished from planned starvation or outright murder in Allied concentration camps; untold thousands more disappeared into slave labor camps from the Congo to Siberia.
Savitri Devi describes in vivid detail how individual National Socialists were subjected to “de-Nazification” by Germany’s democratic “liberators. Party and military leaders were subjected to summary execution, torture, starvation, show-trials, imprisonment, and execution for the higher echelons. Ordinary party members were subjected to petty indignities and recantations extorted under the threat of imprisonment, hunger, and the denial of livelihood for ordinary party members. She also chronicles the systematic plunder of Germany by the Allies: the clear-cutting of ancient forests, the dismantling of factories, the theft of natural resources.
In spite of the disaster, Savitri Devi did not view it as the end of National Socialism, but as a purification—a trial by fire separating the base metal from the gold—a prelude to a new beginning. Thus Savitri also devotes chapters to presenting the basic philosophy and the constructive political program of National Socialism.
Gold in the Furnace is a valuable historical document of the National Socialists who never lost faith, despite suffering, persecution and martyrdom; of the ordinary Germans who revered Hitler even after the war; of the widespread rumors of Hitler’s survival; of the hopes of imminent National Socialist revival, perhaps in the aftermath of a Third World War; of the expectations of Soviet victory in such a war; and of the philosophy, experiences, and unique personality of a remarkable woman.
Contents
Editor’s Preface
Foreword
Introduction
1. The Philosophy of the Swastika
2. Brief Days of Glory
3. Now, the Trial
4. The Unforgettable Night
5. De-Nazification
6. Chambers of Hell
7. Plunder, Lies, and Shallowness
8. A Peep into the Enemies Camp
9. The Elite of the World
10. Divine Vengeance
11. The Constructive Side
12. The Holy Forest
13. Echoes from the Russian Zone
14. Against Time
Index
About the Authoress