Not many know that India is the only country, the tune of whose national anthem was set by Hitler's Germany. The logic is simple. India was a British colony and what best chance to get independence than approach the one
who can give you a reasonable assurance for that? And Bose did exactly that - he approached Nazi Germany. Hitler sent him to Japan and we know the story. Was Hitler bad or Churchill bad is not the question for him. How can he use Hitler to make India independent -
that's all mattered to him. There are people who knew that but refused to accept it, but it's a different topic altogether. Back to the tune. Bose is supposed to set up a government in exile and needed a national anthem. 
After much deliberations, they decided upon a Hindustani translation of Tagore's Jana Gana Mana by Col Abid Hasan. Now, was the translation made to have the same lyric in Hindustani or was there a translation already done, I have no clue.
Ambik Majumdar and Dr Mukherjee set the tune and the final version was made by Dr Eigel Kruettge, the Conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg. The score was played on 11 September 1942 on the occasion of founding of Indo-German Association.
It is said India didn't have a national anthem initially and this tune was played at UNO in 1950 - when Nehru got to know of this and with the First Republic Day fast approaching, the tune was adopted for Indian National Anthem which used the original composed by Tagore.
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