Sunday, 23 February 2014

Mohandas Gandhi's letter to Adolf Hitler, 1939

India's figurehead for independence and non-violent protest pleads with the leader of Nazi Germany

23 July 1939

As tensions mounted in Europe following Germany’s occupation of Czechoslovakia, Mohandas Gandhi, the famously non-violent leader of the Indian independence movement, wrote a clear and concise plea for Hitler to avoid war, but it never reached its intended recipient because of an intervention by the British government. Just over a month later, the world looked on in horror as Germany invaded Poland.

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