Buddha and Hitler

[Luis Gonzalez-Reimann]

The Indologist mentioned in the PBS program is Walther Wust.  The narrator
of the program comments on his speech to the SS in March, 1937, in Munich.
The ideas of Wust, including the speech mentioned in the PBS program, are
discussed in pp. 89-91 of:

Pollock, Sheldon. 1993. Deep Orientalism?: Notes on Sanskrit and Power
Beyond the Raj. In Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament:
Perspectives on South Asia, eds. Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der
Veer, 77-133. South Asia Seminar Series. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press. Papers presented at the 44th Annual South Asia Seminar
held at the University of Pennsylvania, 1988/1989.

Best,

Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
University of California, Berkeley


At 01:43 PM 12/01/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>There was a PBS program. I think the British narrator Michael Wood (1948-),
>producer of Legacy produced this. On Arians and Nazi Germany.
>
>There was a mention about a top Indologist speaking before Hitler,
>Himmler and other elite leaders of 1930-40s Germany proclaiming that
>Hitler's book and the teachings of the Buddha are very similar
>or same...
>
>Who was that famous Indologist?
>
>Thanks,
>SM