Hitler had plans to invade India

MOSCOW, FEB 18: The German Army during the Nazi era had plans to invade India through Khyber pass and Caucasus and later bifurcate it, a Russian historian has said.

As per the plan, code-named 8220;Barbossa plan8221;, the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent was to be placed under Japan and the western under Nazi Germany, historian and Indologist Grigory Bondariyevski told state-run radio Rus. Bondariyevski, a recent Padamshree recepient , said he came across the plan while studying the Nazi archives of World War II era.