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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 ...
French Foreign Legion (Légion Étrangère) – The Legion is a corps of the French Army. Formed in 1831, it is designed to foreigners willing to serve in the French Armed Forces. Legionnaires come from around the world and applicants must be aged between 17.5 and 39.5. [14]
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
He broke up with the Congress and tried to form a military alliance with Germany or Japan to gain independence. Bose, with the assistance of Germany, formed the Indian Legion from Indian students in Axis occupied Europe and Indian Army prisoners of war. With German reversals in 1942 and 1943, Bose and the Legion's officers were transported by U ...
The prestige of The Raj had suffered a blow with the fall of Malaya and, later, the massive surrender at Singapore.In February 1942, the Indian prisoners of war from the British Indian Army captured there came under the influence of Indian nationalists, notably Mohan Singh Deb, and a large number volunteered to form the Indian National Army with support from Japan and had the stated aim of ...
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 National Archives of Singapore digitised its available resources in 2007 as Historical Journey of the Indian National Army. [214] In 2004, the Indian Legion in Europe was the subject of a BBC magazine article authored by Mike Thomson, but it did not attempt to distinguish the differences between the Legion and the INA. [178]
Indian Volunteer Legion of the Waffen-SS: August 1944 [112] n/a n/a Formed from the Indian Grenadier Regiment 950. [113] 35th SS-Police Grenadier Division: February 1945 [110] n/a n/a Formed from police personnel, near the end of the war. [104] 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS: February 1945 [111] Russian and Ukrainian volunteers [114 ...