A little over a year before the Second World War broke out, a team of Germans wearing muddy boots landed entirely unobtrusively, and almost...
A little over a year before the Second World War broke out, a team of Germans wearing muddy boots landed entirely unobtrusively, and almost surreptitiously, along the eastern borders of India. Were the Germans there to scout for spots for a sabotage mission in case peace with England did not work out and a conflict became inevitable?
Were they looking at the Raj’s vulnerabilities on one of its most precious territories, or at the possibilities of tying up with some of India’s eastern neighbours for an alliance that might prove to be strategically and tactically useful in the short and medium term? Did they want to gauge the readiness or the mood of the Indian soldiers recruited by the British for the defence of India?
Nothing of the sort, really. The Germans had landed to find out for themselves the exact source of the origin of the Aryan race.
This expedition was the brainchild of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer or head of the SS, the Nazi force whose insignia of the double thunderbolt had created terror across Germany.
Himmler was the chief of all of the German police in the Nazi regime, whose men were in supreme control of the concentration camps which had begun...
