Savitri Devi integrated Nazism into a broader cyclical framework of Hindu history. She considered Hitler to be the ninth Avatar of Vishnu, and called him the god-like Individual of our times; the Man against Time; the greatest European of all times, having an ideal vision of returning his Aryan people to an earlier, more perfect time, and also having the practical wherewithal to fight the destructive forces in Time. She saw his defeat—and the forestalling of his vision from coming to fruition—as a result of him being too magnanimous, too trusting, too good, of not being merciless enough, of having in his psychological make-up, too much 'sun' [beneficence] and not enough 'lightning.' [practical ruthlessness], unlike his coming incarnation: