Intiaanilegioona oli sotilasyksikkö, joka perustettiin toisen maailmansodan aikana Kolmannessa valtakunnassa. Sen oli tarkoitus toimia vapauttavana voimana Britannian hallitsemalle Intialle, se koostui intialaisista sotavangeista, nationalistisista/itsenäisyyden vapaaehtoisista ja Euroopassa olevista maahanmuuttajista.
Koska se on peräisin Intian itsenäisyysliikkeestä, se tunnettiin myös nimellä "Tiger Legion" ja "Azad Hind Fauj".
Se muodostettiin alun perin osana Saksan armeijaa, mutta elokuusta 1944 lähtien se annettiin virallisesti Waffen-SS:lle.
Intian itsenäisyysjohtaja Subhas Chandra Bose aloitti legioonan muodostamisen osana pyrkimyksiään vapauttaa Intia käynnistämällä sodan Iso-Britanniaa vastaan saapuessaan Berliiniin vuonna 1941 pyytäen apua saksalaisilta.
Alkuperäiset värvätyt vuonna 1941 olivat vapaaehtoisia intialaisista opiskelijoista, jotka asuivat tuolloin Saksassa, ja kourallinen intialaisia sotavankeja, jotka vangittiin Pohjois-Afrikan kampanjan aikana.
Myöhemmin se houkutteli lisää intialaisia sotavankeja vapaaehtoisina.
The Volunteer Hindu Legion (Ger. Indische Freiwilligen-Legion der Waffen-SS ) is a military unit composed of Hindus and operating within the Waffen-SS structure during World War II. Its formation was closely related to the activity of the Hindu politician, with extremely nationalist views, Subhas Chandra Bose, who in 1942 obtained the consent of Adolf Hitler to recruit British prisoners captured by the Axis troops during the fighting in North Africa. As there were quite a lot of Indians among them, do About 3,000 people were pre-qualified for the Volunteer Legion, but after the selection this number dropped to 300. It is worth adding, however, that at the beginning of 1943 the number of soldiers in the formation was about 2,000. Interestingly, the unit (at the beginning of 1943) was composed of both Muslims and Hindu people, and the command language was English! In 1943, the unit (already known as the 950th Infantry Regiment) was transferred to the Netherlands, and shortly later to France. From June 1944, the unit performed a guard duty on the Atlantic Wall in the Bordeaux region. However, as the Allied armies advanced, the Volunteer Hindu Legion was withdrawn to Germany, where it remained until March 1945. The soldiers of the Legion, in the face of the inevitable defeat of the Third Reich, decided to try to escape to Switzerland, but it failed and were captured by American and French troops. Later, they were handed over to British troops, sent back to India and tried for treason.
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