02/04/2022
On 3rd April 1941, subhash chandra boss visited the German Foreign Office in Berlin where Dr Ernst Woermann, the Under-Secretary of State, received him and listened carefully about the former's plan of establishing a government-in-exile. In Berlin, Bose founded 'Free India centre' and the members of the unit were Indian prisoners of War in Germany. He used the Berlin Radio, calling it the Azad Hind Radio, to broadcast about the cause of the freedom of India. Only Bose could do that!
To quote from the book 'Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: From Kabul to Battle of Imphal' by HN Pandit: "As in the thirties, Mussolini's government came forward more enthusiastically than the others to help Subhas. From Rome they sent to their Kabul Embassy a special courier named Orlando Mazzotta whose passport was to be used by Bose shortly afterwards when the courier was supposed to be on his return journey. His photograph on the passport was replaced by Bose’s picture and Bose became Mazzotta by shedding his Muslim name Mohammad Ziauddin, his Afghan clothing and a part of his beard and moustache now suitably trimmed to look Italian. Moscow kept one eye closed as Subhas was briefly lodged in a luxurious hotel there, but politely turned down his cautious overtures during that period for permission to stay on in the USSR."
Attached is a rare photograph of Azad Hind Fauz training camp in Sanghai. The influence of Netaji Bose in SE Asia! While outside India Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is hailed as a leader of whole SE Asia, in India it took almost 70 years to recognise him!
(https://www.amazon.in/Saffron-Swords-Authors-Manoshi-Yogaditya/dp/B07Q139493) Book 2 covers unknown facets of Netaji Bose in a chapter.
- Manoshi Sinha. Image from Google. Image courtesy: Soham Dutta Roy.