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mirrors In world war II Indian prisoners of war in North Africa
were released to form a Waffen-SS unit, the Azad Hind Legion.
Their Colour was a yellow-white-green horizontal tricolour, with
the white stripe twice the size of the others and containing a
"springing tiger". Lettered in white in the yellow stripe: Azad,
and in the green stripe, Hind. They were captured in southern
Germany at the end of the war, and shipped back to India to be
tried for treason. Todd Mills, 17 April 1997 A long, long story
(on which I did my M.A.). Units were formed in Germany and
southeast Asia among captured Indian prisoners of war during
WWII under the leadership of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. There
is much fantasy and fraud regarding the flags, insignia, medals,
etc. of the Indian National Army (as they were called). When the
provisional go