[lbo-talk] BBC NEWS | Europe | Hitler's secret Indian army

[R]

it's more or less common knowledge that a very right wing element existed 
in india during the british raj.  it's been aired in documentaries on the 
history channel of all places.  it was completely sympathetic to hitler and 
threatened the british with armed rebellion during WWII as a fifth column 
in india.  coming to terms with the indian right wing, as much as gandhi, 
created an independent india after WWII, although gandhi gets all the credit.

this right wing exists in india today.

R

At 11:17 AM 9/24/2004, you wrote:


><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3684288.stm>
>
>Hitler's secret Indian army
>By Mike Thomson
>BBC News
>
>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.
>
>Members of the Free India Legion
>Legionnaires were recruited from German POW camps
>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.