He was the Obersleutanant. I.e Lt col rank and was associated with Indian legion raised in Germany by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose during WW II. Netaji after arrival in Germany met Hitler and had discussions with senior German officers about his efforts to liberate India with the Help of Germany and he proposed to raise armed force . The captured Men of British Indian army in the war were motivated for the cause and they joined the cause and took oath in allegiance to Hitler.Krappe was fully associated. With these efforts, training of the men . The legionnaires wore German army Wehrmacht uniform with shoulder patch of springing. Bengal tiger. at later stage the legion was attached to Waffen SS and KRAPPE agreed to shift over to Waffen SS with rank Oberststurmbannfuhrer. however the men of the legion were not willing to accept Heinz bertlong replacing Kurt KRAPPE as the commanding officer. Heinz having come to know that he was not accepted by the men of the legion stayed away and KRAPPE commnader the legion till the last. WhenHitler attacked USSR Netajis plans of invasion of India via western Indian borders crashed and he moved to Japan where he raised INA.Infact , USSR can invade. Indias western front via. Afghanistan, Kazakistan.There are openings In the. Present occupied Kashmir valley. However Logistics would have been difficult.Once the enemy enters Punjab plains battle is open to armour and the British could field armour in Indian plains. Germany also should have brought in armour in great strength to defeat the English army and its allies on Ondian front. however this did not happen
I am a retired colonel from army and for the last 28 years pursuing career in Engineering education. I am a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and Post graduate in Machine design from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. I have obtained Ph D Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Dr Ram manohar Lohia Avadh University. I am also the recipient of Ph D degrees in Strategic studies, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Religious studies and political Science from other Universities. I have also written and published four books on political Science, education and English poetry. I have published 38 Technical papers in various journals and seminar proceedings. I have also published 950 research articles on line in faithcommons.org and Sanghparivar.org. There are 15 English short stories to my credit. I have published 82 articles on various subjects like strategic studies, history and political science in new Swatantra times published from Hyderavbad. As a professor I guided more than 95 projects at degree level and thirty at PG level. Some candidates are pursuing research under my guidance.I am recipient of Three national awards.
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He was the Obersleutanant. I.e Lt col rank and was associated with Indian legion raised in Germany by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose during WW II. Netaji after arrival in Germany met Hitler and had discussions with senior German officers about his efforts to liberate India with the Help of Germany and he proposed to raise armed force . The captured Men of British Indian army in the war were motivated for the cause and they joined the cause and took oath in allegiance to Hitler.Krappe was fully associated. With these efforts, training of the men . The legionnaires wore German army Wehrmacht uniform with shoulder patch of springing. Bengal tiger. at later stage the legion was attached to Waffen SS and KRAPPE agreed to shift over to Waffen SS with rank Oberststurmbannfuhrer. however the men of the legion were not willing to accept Heinz bertlong replacing Kurt KRAPPE as the commanding officer. Heinz having come to know that he was not accepted by the men of the legion stayed away and KRAPPE commnader the legion till the last. WhenHitler attacked USSR Netajis plans of invasion of India via western Indian borders crashed and he moved to Japan where he raised INA.Infact , USSR can invade. Indias western front via. Afghanistan, Kazakistan.There are openings In the. Present occupied Kashmir valley. However Logistics would have been difficult.Once the enemy enters Punjab plains battle is open to armour and the British could field armour in Indian plains. Germany also should have brought in armour in great strength to defeat the English army and its allies on Ondian front. however this did not happen
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