“Nothing makes me more certain of the victory of our ideas” boasted Adolf Hitler in 1930, “than our success in the universities.” In less than two decades graduates from German universities – nationalist politicians, scientist’s engineers, doctors, administrator’s police and army officers – were operating his vast murder machine.

Vishal Mangalwadi’s introduction responds to India’s leading fascist intellectual, Arun Shourie’s new book, Harvesting Our Souls.