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 | | However, occupied countries as Greece, Lithuania and Poland never formed any Waffen-SS legions (in Greece, the Fascist organisation ESPO was creating one Greek division, but the plans were abandoned after its leader was assassinated). |
 | | The Legion Freies Indien, or Indische Freiwilliger Infanterie Regiment 950 was created in August 1942, chiefly from disaffected Indian soldiers of the British Indian Army, captured by the Axis in North Africa. |
 | | Many, if not most, of the Indian "volunteers" who "switched sides" to fight with the German Army and against their British "colonial oppressors" were strongly nationalistic supporters of the exiled, anti-British, former president of the Indian National Congress, Netaji (the Leader) Subhash Chandra Bose. |
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