Did the Indian revolutionary and Fascist collaborator Bose really die in a plane crash in 1945? Signs point to maybe not.
(I also had not known that Bose had a daughter with his Austrian secretary.)
If Bose did live until 1985 as an anonymous holy man, he had ample time to reflect that it was just as well his efforts on behalf of the Japanese were a failure.
The who-survived-till-when questions are really interesting.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in Paraguay in the 1970s, it was clear there were people still being protected. The hotel I stayed in while in Asuncion was owned by Germans who had come into Paraguay just before WWI. They had a country resort, and I was told very positively that Mengele still spent substantial time there (shortly after that, there was a report in Time Magazine that he'd been spotted in Paraguay). While I was there, the owner of a small restaurant was machine gunned in his place. He had been a concentration camp survivor, and positively identified the corpse of an SS officer from the camp-- he identified someone who had died of natural causes! This made front page newspaper headlines down there.
I am reasonably certain that I could not possibly summons up a comment with implications of more exotic experience than this one (well, unless it involved other experiences on that same trip).
... We need an NMC post, or series of posts, on What NMC Was Doing in Paraguay in the 1970s.
ReplyDeletePhilip Kerr's A Quiet Flame is an entertaining thriller set in postwar Argentina, with Nazis falling out of the woodwork.
If the Bose story is true, there's got to be a major cover-up hidden in Indian government archives. India is a big place, but not big enough for Bose to be rumored alive and the federal gov't not know about it.