On the night of January 16-17, 1941, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose made his “Great Escape” to Europe.
Subhas had been under house arrest with police posted outside his Elgin Road house in the city.
On this night, according to Netaji’s nephew Sisir Kumar Bose, he had driven Netaji out in a black German Wanderer car under cover of darkness and had reached Gomoh railway station in Bihar. From there Netaji would reach Peshawar, then Moscow, and eventually Germany, then under the Nazis, in April 1941.
He would leave Germany in a German submarine in February 1943 and reach Sumatra in a Japanese submarine in May.
During his stay in Germany, Anita, his daughter with Emilie Schenkl, was born in 1942. Netaji would revive the Indian National Army (INA) on his arrival in South-East Asia in 1943.