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Part One: Narendra Modi, And India's Weird Nazi Obsession

Behind the Bastards

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The History of the Nazism

The SS Ananairbe sent expeditions into Tibet and northern India to seek out the origins of their mythical supermen. The idea was that these Indian soldiers would act as pathfinders and help lead the German army into India when it was time to invade the subcontinent. In Germany wound up collecting well over 10,000 Indian soldiers that way so there were like 10,000Indian Hindu and Muslim Indian soldiers in the SS. They were eventually stationed in France just in time for the Normandy landings but a lot of them did get killed by the French resistance.

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