The Indian Legion is a joke. These are Indians who couldn’t kill a louse, who’d rather be eaten themselves. They wouldn’t kill an Englishman either. To have them face the English of all people is really a stupid idea, I think. Why should the Indians fight more courageously for us than they fought in India itself, under Bose’s leadership? They put Indian units into action in Burma, under Bose’s leadership, to free India from the English. They ran away like sheep. Why should they be braver with us? I think that if the Indians were used to turn prayer wheels or something like that, they’d be the most untiring soldiers in the world. But to use them in real bloody combat is ridiculous. How strong are the Indians? [—] Besides, it’s nonsense. If we had an abundance of weapons, we could afford such jokes for propagandistic reasons. But if we don’t have an abundance of weapons, these propagandistic jokes just can’t be justified.