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Indische Freiwilligen-Legion Regiment 950

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I think we have made a decent effort here. From one paragraph (on tiger legion) last month, this is now is a very detailed article on a very interesting topic about which very little is known. I think it addresses the allegations of collaboration on the unit as well as well is also well referenced considerations on different NPOV viewpoints addresses the point of being freedom fighters.Rueben lys 21:34, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment A few comments about references. Footnotes should go after punctuations, I fixed a few for you. Is there a reason ibid are used instead of <ref name="name">? Wikipedia can't be used as a source. Use the Category:Citation templates if possible. Thanks. WP 02:37, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Object. This statement:The allegations that the Free India Legion was nothing more than a collaborationist Heer unit is therefore a very simplistic but distorted view of a formation of men who saw themselves as patriots and pioneers, not Nazis or collaborationsts. is extremely POV. It either gets sourced or it gets removed.

    And then the very next section starts off like this:

The Free India Legion did not engage in it's original conceived role in the western front of British India, so it is a fallacy to hold any arguments as to whether they did- or could have- fulfilled the destiny that the men of the Legion had dreamt of. Moreover, the Legion was, and still remains, far removed from public perception in India, possibly because it did not engage it's enemy, the British Raj, Even the 9th Company's engagements in Italy with British forces are hardly known outside those circles with an interest in WWII history. Was, then, Bose's plans for Azad Hind Legion too grandiose for its own capabillity? In terms of military capabillity, that answer is probably a definitive yes, for the fate of Free India Legion was tied like a corpse to that of the Axis. But in political terms, to consider the Azad Hind Legion a paper tiger is more than an untruth. To consider the effects that the legion had, one has therefore to consider the effects that the entire Azad Hind movement had on the culmination of British Raj in India.

That's not encyclopedic writing, to say the least. It's the opening graf of an essay and sounds perilously close to OR.

Some cleanup is also required before this reaches FA-level. I think it would be best to take it to peer review first. Daniel Case 17:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Indische Freiwilligen-Legion Regiment 950" is rather uncommon, even in German. "Indische Freiwilligen-Legion" would be enough and more understandable, otherwise I start to wonder if there were other Indian regiments in the Wehrmacht, perhaps even a whole division. You could put the creation of this unit perhaps a bit more in the political context. Nazi Germany made several attempts to support decolonization (Iraq, India, etc.). Japanese tried to ally with Indian nationalists and there was even consideration to launch an attack against British India with the help of several allies. This led to an enforced regime change in Iran during WWII.Wandalstouring 19:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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