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Victories Reversed: The 1938-9 Clash of Mohandas Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose By Will Woodworth February 3, 2012 http://middlab.middlebury.edu/ files/2012/05/ Woodworth_VictoriesReversed1.pd f " Acknowledgments This thesis would bear only a slight resemblance to its current form if it were not  for the wonderful opportunity that I enjoyed in June 2011 to undertake primary source research at a series of archives in London. For two weeks, I split my time between The National Archives, which house records on Subhas Bose’s wartime activities, the sound archive at the Imperial War Museum, which contains a number of oral history interviews with those who knew Bose, and the British Library, which hosts the records of the British colonial administration in India.

Rudolf Hartog remembers parting with his Indian friends Legionnaires were recruited from German POW camps Hitler's secret Indian army By Mike Thomson  BBC News Last Updated:  Thursday, 23 September 2004, 23:52 GMT 00:52 UK   In the closing stages of World War II, as Allied and French resistance forces were driving Hitler's now demoralised forces from France, three senior German officers defected. The information they gave British intelligence was considered so sensitive that in 1945 it was locked away, not due to be released until the year 2021. Now, 17 years early, the BBC's Document programme has been given special access to this secret file. It reveals how thousands of Indian soldiers who had joined Britain in the fight against fascism swapped their oaths to the British king for others to Adolf Hitler - an astonishing tale of loyalty, despair and betrayal that threatened to rock British rule in India, known as the Raj. The story