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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose left the Congress and took up the path of freeing India by raising an army through a wartime collaboration with the help of Axis powers. Some of the Hindu princes were also thinking on the same line. It was agreed that Hindu princes would back Adolf Hitler during World War II and Hitler would support India in its freedom struggle. The pact was kept a well-guarded secret.
But at the end of World War II, what happened to Hitler? Many sources claim that he didn’t die in his underground Berlin bunker on 30th April 1945. FBI claims that Hitler didn’t commit suicide and DNA tests conducted on the skull of Hitler provide evidence that the skull was not of Hitler’s but a woman in her 40s. Another source claims that Hitler escaped with his wife Eva Braun. A conspiracy theory suggests the Nazi dictator may have actually taken sanctuary after the war in remote Kashmir in India, where he breathed his last and is buried in an unknown grave.
There is a strange similarity in the possible escape plan of Hitler and Bose to an undisclosed destination. The 'Hunting Hitler' revolves around many unbelievable threads.
Somdev Chattopadhyay
Somdev Chattopadhyay is born and brought up in Katihar, a district town in Bihar. His other books 'Pangong Hroder Dhare', And 'The Outsiders: Poetry from Afghanistan' are available online. The author is a research scholar and the 'Hunting Hitler is his latest and exhaustive research-based non-fictional book.
His curious journey of researching the fate of Führer starts after getting to know about Fred Smetacek. Smetacek was a Sudeten German Czech who fled from the Nazis in Calcutta in 1939. He is said to have been involved in a plot to kill Hitler when he visited the Sudetenland in the spring of 1939. Smetacek managed to escape to Hamburg and docked in Calcutta shortly before the outbreak of World War II.
