Wednesday, April 1, 2020

kurt KRAPPE, pencil sketch by Dr k Prabhakar Rao


KURT KRAPPE, WEHRMACHT, INDIAN LEGION, WW II

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Dr K Prabhakar Rao said...

Kurt carp pe was a lt col from Wehrmacht I.e German army and he was responsible for organising, administration and training of Indian legion an armed force if which Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was the supreme commander. The legion wore German uniform if wehrmachtwith a special shoulder insignia showing springing tiger. Boyce accepted hitter as the overall supreme commander of all forces and accepted him as the leader and signed to the effect. He had detailed discussions with Ribbentrop , himmlers and others apart from Hitler. it was agreed that legion will not be used against non British forces in the war except in self defence. As per the plan German forces with legion were to invade British India via Caucasus mountains, Iran, and Afghanistan . Russia was friendly to Germany in the beginning of war. but in 1941 Germany invaded Russia and with change of events the invasion of India was not possible. Bose therefore was sent to Japan to accomplish his task by. Joining Japanese forces. he was sent by German submarine via Cape of good hope and was transferred to Japanese submarine at madagaskar. in Japan Boise raised Indian national army if three divisions and established free India govt at Singapore. Burma was occupied and happy army with Ina invaded zindia from East and areas in Manipur and Kohima sector after bitter battles. . however America dropped atom bombs on Japan and this resulted in surrender of Japanese a forces and INA. Netaji was reportedly declared dead in a n air crash.
in Germany Indian legion did guard duties in nettherlands and after D day landings by allies the forces were withdrawn to ITLAIN front. They operated against resistance forces.After the collapse of Germany teg legion tried to cros s over to Switzerland but were captured. They were sent to India to face trials.