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@VaibhavP21 @kishwardesai1 @VinitaNangia @WestlandBooks "In India, we have always had this notion that Hitler was a friend of the Indian people, and that he had extended whole-hearted support for India's struggle for political liberty."
@VaibhavP21 at #TimesLitFest

"Hitler fought against Britain in the second world war. So because he was fighting the British who at that time were ruling over India, we have come to the conclusion that he was pro-India."
@VaibhavP21

"The word 'Aryan' has its origins in the Sanskrit word 'Arya'. We believe that Hitler may have believed that Indians are the real Aryans."
#VaibhavPurandare at #TimesLitFest on origin of #Aryan

"We have never really questioned our own assumptions and understanding about the man (Hitler) and his Nazi mission."
@VaibhavP21 at #TimesLitFest

"I looked into the Indian, German, and British archives. And there were startling revelations. I made some truly startling discoveries. And I found out that right through his political career, Hitler had been speaking about India almost throughout his life."

"In Hitler's view, the Indians were a bunch of inferior people. They were subhumans. The brown races and the black races simply did not count as human beings."
@VaibhavP21

"When I went through the archives, I found that at that time, Indians were very much aware of what Hitler felt, thought, and said about India."

"We know that during the 1st world war, the Indians freedom fighters who were based abroad had looked at Berlin as a possible source of assistance to Indians in their freedom struggle."
#VaibhavPurandare at #TimesLitFest

"As Hitler became a more and more powerful force in Europe and across the world, Indians unavoidably come to the conclusion that here is perhaps somebody we could put pressure on the British."
@VaibhavP21

"Even somebody like Gandhi is willing to look at the positive side of Nazi Germany thinking perhaps it could be helpful to India."
@VaibhavP21 at the #TimesLitFest

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"Bose survived because suddenly the Nazis needed Britain's enemies in some sort of way for the purpose of German propaganda against the British."
#VaibhavPurandare at #TimesLitFest

"When Japan starts series of wins and comes closer to India, Hitler in one of his conferences laments the fact that the British Raj might end and that the Japanese might take over India."
@VaibhavP21 at #TimesLitFest
#BritishRaj #IndiaChina

"When I went through the entire manuscript of the minutes of Bose's meeting with Hitler, I found out that 6 pages of the total 7 pages of that conversation are taken up with Hitler's rants and Bose barely gets a word in."
Reveals @VaibhavP21 at #TimesLitFest

"Hitler is not a man who led a life of military discipline. He would get up at 1 in the afternoon, have lazy lunches. Basically not a man we assume in that military uniform."
@vaibhavP21

Hitler believed that British Raj in India is a model of Nazi rule and Russia would be Germany's India: @VaibhavP21

#Nazi #britishraj

"The difference between the British Raj and Nazi Germany is that for all its flaws, Britain had a parliamentary democracy where Indians had some chance to get their voice heard."
@VaibhavP21