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The '''Free India Centre''' ({{lang-de|Zentrale Freies Indien}}) was the European branch of the [[Provisional Government of Free India|Azad Hind]], [[provisional government]] led by [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]. It was founded by Bose when he was in [[Nazi Germany]] in 1942, and headed by [[A. C. N. Nambiar]]. | The '''Free India Centre''' ({{lang-de|Zentrale Freies Indien}}) was the European branch of the [[Provisional Government of Free India|Azad Hind]], [[provisional government]] led by [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]. It was founded by Bose when he was in [[Nazi Germany]] in 1942, and headed by [[A. C. N. Nambiar]]. | ||
Its responsibilities included managing relations with the European [[Axis powers]], supporting and recruiting volunteers for the [[Indian Legion]] of the [[Waffen-SS]], running [[Azad Hind Radio]], and preparing for the much larger provisional government that was formed in southeast Asia with Japanese support. While its main base was in Berlin, it also had branch offices in occupied [[Paris]] and in Italy. On its establishment in [[Berlin]], the Free India Centre was essentially given the status of a diplomatic mission by Nazi Germany. It had an office at No. 2A Lichtensteiner Allee in [[Tiergarten, Berlin|Tiergarten]], although its activities were for some time mostly conducted in hotels or Bose's eventual house on Sophienstrasse in [[Charlottenburg]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A Beacon Across Asia: A Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose|editor-last=Werth|editor-first=Aleander|year=1996|publisher= Orient Blackswan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYaMBfgT2y8C& | Its responsibilities included managing relations with the European [[Axis powers]], supporting and recruiting volunteers for the [[Indian Legion]] of the [[Waffen-SS]], running [[Azad Hind Radio]], and preparing for the much larger provisional government that was formed in southeast Asia with Japanese support. While its main base was in Berlin, it also had branch offices in occupied [[Paris]] and in Italy. On its establishment in [[Berlin]], the Free India Centre was essentially given the status of a diplomatic mission by Nazi Germany. It had an office at No. 2A Lichtensteiner Allee in [[Tiergarten, Berlin|Tiergarten]], although its activities were for some time mostly conducted in hotels or Bose's eventual house on Sophienstrasse in [[Charlottenburg]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A Beacon Across Asia: A Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose|editor-last=Werth|editor-first=Aleander|year=1996|publisher= Orient Blackswan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYaMBfgT2y8C&pg=PA109|isbn= 8125010289|pages=106–109}}</ref> | ||
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