The Indian Legion, officially the Free India Legion or 950th Infantry Regiment, was a military unit raised during the Second World War initially as part of the German Army and later the Waffen-SS from
Indian POWs in Derna, Libya, 1941.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspecting a unit of the Indian Legion at the Atlantic Wall in France, 10 February 1944.
Shooting at sea targets from the Atlantic Wall in France, February 1944.
Troops of the Indian Legion at the Atlantic Wall near Bordeaux, France, March 1944.
The Provisional Government of Free India or, more simply, Azad Hind, was a short-lived Japanese-controlled provisional government in India. It was established in exile in Japanese-occupied Singapore d
Indian Legion
…inscribed over the saffron and green bands respectively, and over the white middle band was a leaping tiger. This is essentially the same design that the Azad Hind Government later adopted as their flag (although photographic evidence shows that the Indian National Army, at least during the Burma Campaign, used the Swaraj…
Subhash Chandra Bose proclaims the Provisional Government of Free India on 21 October 1943, Singapore
National celebration at the founding of the Provisional National Indian government at the Free India Center, Berlin, with Secretary of State Wilhelm Keppler speaking, on 16 November 1943.
Greater East Asia Conference in November 1943, participants left to right: Ba Maw, Zhang Jinghui, Wang Jingwei, Hideki Tojo, Wan Waithayakon, José P. Laurel, Subhas Chandra Bose.
Currency issued by the Azad Hind Bank