Company tiger

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The company Tiger describes plans of the German secret service in the early 1940s to support an uprising against the British colonial rulers in India .

The Indian nationalist leader Subhash Chandra Bose fled to Berlin via Afghanistan and the USSR in early 1941 . While Hitler did not consider India ripe for self-government, Bose found support from Adam von Trott zu Solz , head of the special section India in the Foreign Office , critical of the regime . Nazi opponents like him saw the overthrow of British colonial rule in India as a way to get the British government to negotiate with German resistance members.

They fulfilled Bose's demands for their own troops (" Indian Legion ") and a radio station to spread propaganda. The army supported the project by their defense a sabotage squad of Kabul sent. This contacted Bose's forward block . In August 1942 there were strikes and acts of sabotage in India at German behest.

Because German support did not seem sufficient for his overthrow plans, Bose switched to the Japanese in early 1943.

See also

literature

  • Alexander Werth : "Tiger of India" . Bechtle, Munich and Esslingen 1971.

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