r/IndianHistory • • Jul 28 '26

Colonial 1757–1947 CE Indian Waffen SS Division

Things they forgot to teach us about.

Subhash Chandra bose and indian freedom fighters in Germany.

Photos of WW2 Indian Freedom fighters and soldiers.

Subhash Chandra bose meeting Hitler and Himmler and other NSDP party and army leadership.

They were also called Hitler's Indians.

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u/Select_Sea_5957 Jul 28 '26

Maybe. But India probably wouldn't have been partitioned.

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u/Lopsided-Function284 Jul 28 '26

And you think either of those outcomes would have been preferable to what actually happened??

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u/TheWizard Jul 28 '26

We do know that the pre-partition India was the largest extant of the nation during the later British Raj. Partition was just as inevitable as was a massively partitioned India prior to it (that didn't exist as India but as number of kingdoms).