
TheFree India Centre (German:Zentrale Freies Indien) was the European branch of theAzad Hind,provisional government led bySubhas Chandra Bose. It was founded by Bose when he was inNazi Germany in 1942, and headed byA. C. N. Nambiar.
Its responsibilities included managing relations with the EuropeanAxis powers, supporting and recruiting volunteers for theIndian Legion of theWaffen-SS, runningAzad 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 occupiedParis and in Italy. On its establishment inBerlin, 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 inTiergarten, although its activities were for some time mostly conducted in hotels or Bose's eventual house on Sophienstrasse inCharlottenburg.[1]
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