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Indian POWs in Derna, Libya, 1941.. The first troops of the Indian Legion were recruited from Indian POWs captured at El Mekili, Libya during the battles for Tobruk.The German forces in the Western Desert selected a core group of 27 POWs as potential officers and they were flown to Berlin in May 1941, to be followed, after the Centro I experiment, by POWs being transferred from the Italian ...
Battaglione Azad Hindoustan (in Italian: Battaglione India libera - "Free India Battalion") was a foreign legion unit formed in Fascist Italy under the Raggruppamento Centri Militari in July 1942. The unit, raised initially as Centro I , was headed by Mohammad Iqbal Shedai [ 2 ] – a long term Indian resident of Rome – and was formed of ...
The Provisional Government of Free India ceased to exist with the deaths of the Axis, the INA, and the disappearance of Bose in 1945. Two Annas Token currency, minted in August 1947, in remembrance of the Azad Hind. The troops who manned the brigades of the Indian National Army were taken as prisoners of war by the British. A number of these ...
The Indian National Army (INA; Azad Hind Fauj / ˈ ɑː z ɑː ð ˈ h i n ð ˈ f ɔː dʒ /; lit. 'Free Indian Army') was a collaborationist armed unit of Indian collaborators that fought under the command of the Japanese Empire. [1] It was founded by Mohan Singh in September 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II.
A ceremony marking the establishment of the Provisional Government of Free India held by the Free India Centre in Berlin, with soldiers of the Indian Legion and German and Indian dignitaries present. The Free India Centre (German: Zentrale Freies Indien) was the European branch of the Azad Hind, provisional government led by Subhas Chandra Bose.
Indische Legion, also known as the Free India Legion or Tiger Legion, an Indian unit raised in 1941 and attached to the German Army; Latvian Legion, a formation of the Waffen-SS created in 1943 and consisting primarily of ethnic Latvians; Legion of St. George, the original name of the British Free Corps
Azad Hind Radio (transl. Free India Radio) was a radio service that was started under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose in 1942 to encourage Indians to fight against the British. Though initially based in Nazi Germany, its headquarters were shifted to Japanese occupied Singapore following the course of the war in Southeast Asia .
The Azad Hind Dal was a branch of the Indian Independence League that was formed during World War II to take administrative control of the Indian territories to fall to the Indian National Army starting with the latter's Imphal campaign.