March, 1945.
World War II was nearing an end, and the Indian Volunteer Legion of the Waffen-SS began a long and gruelling march through Switzerland, to get away from a war they didn’t sign up for.
They had no such luck and were captured by the American and French troops. Their crime was treason. Of the 2.5 million Indian troops who fought for the Allies, up to 3,000 served on the German side during the war, as part of Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indian Legion (Indische Legion) in Europe.
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