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Apr 30	comment	Which Japanese military officers helped Ho Chi Minh? But according to the Wikipedia article, the Japanese 38th Army fiercely resisted the Vietnam nationalists, even after Hirohito had ordered them to surrender.
Mar 17	comment	Was India's independence inevitable after Cripps Mission? I understand that the Cripps Mission was not inevitable. But many historians claim that independence within a generation became inevitable when Cripps made the offer. How much is this based on reality?
Mar 15	comment	Why was the movement for Austro-German unity less successful than that of Italian unity? @Drux Did not know about the Swiss bit. Thanks for pointing that out.
Mar 15	comment	Why was the movement for Austro-German unity less successful than that of Italian unity? @Drux According to Wikipedia, the Freedom Party of Austria had many people who claimed to be German nationalists, but the party was never able to attract a large number of votes using this plank. I was referring to their effort.
Mar 15	comment	Why was the movement for Austro-German unity less successful than that of Italian unity? @Drux Simply because the democratic forces are very sensitive to public opinion before waging war, and the people of the Western Allies would surely not support force (just as they accepted unification of East Germany despite the opposition of UK and France).
Mar 7	comment	Why M.K. Gandhi preferred Nehru for Prime Minister candidate and not Sardar Patel? @FelixGoldberg Someone has added a source, and I will let that remain for now. But I would like a better source (maybe some biography of Patel or history of Indian National Congress). I had first heard this mainly from leaders of India's opposition party, who seem to admire Patel more nowadays than the Congress.
Feb 26	comment	Why and how did some Germans choose to join the Stasi (Staatssicherheit)? @FelixGoldberg I am not sure on this, but one thing that I have heard is that the Stasi's agents were also very closely monitored and spied upon. I do not think the Stasi was a force for good, but this could be a reason why its agents did not enjoy impunity.
Feb 26	comment	Why and how did some Germans choose to join the Stasi (Staatssicherheit)? @gerrit While it is true that the idea of banality of evil was developed while the studying the Nazis, the writer had argued that it could explain many other things. So, I do think that the given explanation is a plausible one. In my humble opinion, simply giving the same cause does not mean comparing the scale of human suffering and loss in the two cases.
Feb 14	comment	Was it impossible for the Germans to arrange a plane to East Asia for Subhas Bose? @jwenting Then how did the diplomatic staff of the Allied powers travel?
Feb 13	comment	Did Hitler really support Subhash Chandra Bose's cause and did he do anything to help Bose? Thank you for giving a German perspective. It is true that Bose was allotted a generous amount of money. After all, for much of the time, members of the Indian Legion were paid from his personal allowance. Since you have read something on this, I am asking a related question (on Bose's submarine journey), and I would be grateful if you could answer.
Feb 11	comment	Did Hitler really support Subhash Chandra Bose's cause and did he do anything to help Bose? @Anixx I guess the definition of a "puppet state" differs among people, but very few believed then that France, if liberated with the help of de Gaulle, would be ruled by the British or Americans. That is what I meant by saying that it was not a puppet state.
Feb 11	comment	Did Hitler really support Subhash Chandra Bose's cause and did he do anything to help Bose? @FelixGoldberg Glad that you agree with my stance. But I would beg you to note that neither the Indian National Army nor the provisional government was a puppet of any country. Calling Bose the leader of a puppet state would be similar, in my humble opinion, to calling someone like Charles de Gaulle a puppet.
Feb 6	comment	What was Gandhi's post-factum view of the Partition? @FelixGoldberg Please check my update.
Jan 31	comment	Military intervention in government in India and Pakistan Yes, since India was the legal successor state of the British raj, almost all the military institutions (along with the British army chief) were directly inherited by India. Pakistan did not get this, just because they did not get the most important military structures and people in their territory.
Dec 30	comment	What other war crimes trials besides Nuremberg were held after WWII? @FelixGoldberg I would agree with you if this was the only reason behind judging the accused not guilty. But the full order of Justice Pal was a 1200-pages long report, and though it is available for free, I could not make much sense of it. It contains a lot of details related to precedence and jurisprudence. If there is a summary available somewhere, I would be interested.
Dec 26	comment	Why the difference of opinion about the disappearance of Subhas Chandra Bose As an Indian, I had always heard Bose being referred to as a great leader. The release of two diametrically opposite narratives about Bose's death had attracted my interest six months ago. I read both of them, and found that Dhar has sued the Government of India to reveal what information it has obtained on this from the Russians. India's government claims that doing so would harm friendly relations between the two countries. The judicial battle continues. Interestingly, the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation has agreed to help in case they stumble on something in Russia.
Dec 26	comment	Why the difference of opinion about the disappearance of Subhas Chandra Bose @FelixGoldberg The Indian Army's marching anthem is derived from that of the INA. As for collusion with the Nazis, to the millions of Indians who were starving to death (see Bengal famine of 1943) in Bengal due to sheer indifference, British rule was intolerable, even at the cost of collusion with the Nazis. Bose recognized this, and never showed any sympathy for the Nazis' racial bigotry. In fact, Bose had a few Jewish friends in Austria, and had expressed sympathy for their plight.
Dec 26	comment	Why the difference of opinion about the disappearance of Subhas Chandra Bose @FelixGoldberg I understand that the perspective of people differ. By showing how an independent India could run a government (even if provisional) and an army without being bogged down by religious, linguistic or caste divisions, Bose's made lasting contributions to the birth of India. The Indian Army
Dec 26	comment	What was the first successful non violent independence movement? @FelixGoldberg Indeed, Bose is highly respected in India. In fact, many Indians believe that had he not disappeared, he would have been elected as prime minister of India. His portrait is present in India's Parliament Hall along with other leaders of the Indian independence movement. He was one of the few Indian leaders who had openly challenged (with partial success) Gandhi's leadership within the Indian National Congress, though personal relations between the two were always cordial. I will go through the book that you have mentioned, and if you are interested, discuss it in chat.
Dec 26	comment	What other war crimes trials besides Nuremberg were held after WWII? @HermannIngjaldsson In the Tokyo trial, Justice Pal made the same point as well, and judged the acccused not guilty.