ABSTRACT
On March 6, 1933 Subhas Chandra Bose reached Venice. His nephew Asoke Bose was expecting him. He traveled with the latter to Vienna. Bose viewed himself as the ambassador of the Indian independence movement. For him, Vienna was the city he had traveled to for medical reasons—to cure a lung ailment. Vienna would become his command post and political headquarters for the next several years (Gordon 1990: 269 f.).
