The Iron Lady - Indira Priyadharshini Gandhi.

Motilal Nehru is seated in the center, and standing (L to R) are Jawaharlal Nehru, Vijaylakshmi Pandit, Krishna Hutheesingh, Indira, and Ranjit Pandit; Seated: Swaroop Rani, Motilal Nehru and Kamala Nehru (circa 1927).

Little Indira with Mahatma.

Young Indira Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi, during one of his fasts

Indira with gandhi- 1930

Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, later the first prime minister of India. Being influenced and inspired by her parents, Indira Gandhi rose to power in India and eventually became prime minister.

Indira Nehru and Feroze Gandhi during their wedding, 1942. Seen as tough and authoritarian Indira gave the family the Gandhi name by marrying Feroze Gandhi, a firebrand leftwing MP.

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second President of India, administering the oath of office to Indira Gandhi on 24 January 1966.

Indira Gandhi seen with President Radhakrishnan and Kamaraj.

The then Congress Party President K.Kamaraj was instrumental in making Indira Gandhi the Prime Minister after the sudden demise of Shastri.

Mrs. Gandhi with M.G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. In the post-emergency elections in 1977, only the Southern states returned Congress majorities.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Glenn T. Seaborg at the dedication of Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Trombay, India in 1967.

July 1983, Indira facilitates kapil dev, captain won workd cup. Team manager P.R. Man singh.

Group photograph taken with Mrs. Indira Gandhi along with 'Karagam' party in NEFA

(Arunachal Pradesh-1967 December ) The Author is seated by the side of Mrs. Gandhi in the uniform on her left.


Richard Nixon and Indira Gandhi in 1971. They had a deep personal antipathy that coloured bilateral relations.

The First Indian Underground Nuclear weapon test - Smiling Budha 1974, Pokhran, Rajasthan.

Indira Gandhi visits Pokhran, she was flanked by K.C. Pant (left) and AEC Chairman H.N. Sethna (right).

Indira Gandhi stands with her two sons, Rajiv and Sanjay, in the garden of their Delhi home, 1967. Indira had groomed her son Sanjay to take over but he died in a plane crash in 1980.

Instead airline pilot Rajiv Gandhi became PM in 1984.

Indira Gandhi's Family.
Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi with Rahul Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi and Indira Gandhi Holding Priyanka Gandhi.


Indira Gandhi with Rahul Gandhi.

Indira Gandhi's Final Walk.


Indira Gandhi had numerous bodyguards, two of whom were Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, both Sikhs. On October 31, 1984 they assassinated Indira Gandhi with machine guns in the garden of the Prime Minister's Residence at No. 1, Safdarjung Road in New Delhi. As she was walking to be interviewed by the British actor Peter Ustinov filming a documentary for Irish television, she passed a wicket gate, guarded by Satwant and Beant. They then opened fire with machine guns, after which one shot himself and the other was arrested by her other bodyguards.


F.I.R. Of Indira Gandhi's Assassination, 1984.

Indira Gandhi died on her way to the hospital, in her official car, but she was not declared dead until many hours later. She was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where doctors operated on her and reportedly removed 31 bullets from her body. She was cremated on November 3, near Raj Ghat and the place was called Sakthi Sthal.

Indira Gandhi's body lying in state.

Indian history has been witness to only one female Prime Minister - Indira Gandhi. She was the third Prime Minister of India and the daughter of the first Prime minister - Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru. Her charm, intelligence and charisma made her a powerful statesperson, much loved and admired by her people.

Führer...

Adolf Hitler as an infant.



Adolf Hitler.

Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hitler in school in a photograph taken at the Linz Realschule in 1903.

A young Hitler (left) posed with other German soldiers
Hitler served in France and Belgium in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment, ending the war as a Gefreiter. He was a runner, the most dangerous job on the Western Front, and was often exposed to enemy fire. He participated in a number of major battles on the Western front, including the First Battle of ypres, the Battle of the Sommee, the Battle of Arras and The battle of Passchendele.



Adolf Hitler, behind Herman Goring, at a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1928.



Adolf Hitler in 1930.



Adolf Hitler shown in Landsberg Prison after being
convicted as a result of the Munich Putsch.
I am not sure if this photo, like many other many
NAZI pre-war and wartime era photos, patents, inventions
and other similar items, are void as a results of being considered
"war booty" and are no longer protected for patent
or copyright purposes.

Nazi Party holds mass meeting in Buckeberg in 1934. Other Nazi officials walk behind Hitler.

Parade of SA troops past Hitler. Nuremberg, November 1935.



Putzi Hanfstaengl and Adolf Hitler at the Cafe Heck in Munich in the 1920s.



Adolf Hitler passes through the Brandenburg Gate on the way to the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Berlin, Germany, August 1, 1936.



Adolf Hitler and Robert Ley review a unit of DAF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront) workers at Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) ceremonies in Nuremberg. (September 10-16, 1935)



Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during Hitler's visit to Venice from 14–16 June 1934.



Adolf Hitler in Paris, 1940, with Albert Speer (left) and Arno Breker (right)



Hitler, Mannerheim and Ryti in Finland in 1942



In April 1945, Soviet forces attacked the outskirts of Berlin. Hitler's followers urged him to flee to the mountains of Bravia to make a last stand in the National REdoubt. But Hitler was determined to either live or die in the capital.



20th April, 1945. Hitler awards the Iron Cross to Hitler Youth outside his bunker.
On 20 April, Hitler celebrated his 56th birthday in the "Führer's shelter" below the Reich Chancellery. The garrison commander of the besieged "fortress Breslau", General Hermann Niehoff, had chocolates distributed to his troops in honor of Hitler's birthday.



On 29 April, Hans Krebs, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Joseph Goebbels, and Martin Bormann witnessed and signed the Last will and Teasment of Adolf Hitler . Hitler dictated the document to his private secretary, Traudl Junge . Hitler was also that day informed of the violent death of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on 28 april, which is presumed to have increased his determination to avoid capture.



Cover of U.S. military newspaper The Stars and Stripes, May 1945.
On 30th April, 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule. Hitler's body and that of Eva braun (his mistress whom he had married the day before) were put in a bomb crater, doused in Gasoline by Otto Gunsche and other Führerbunker aides, and set alight as the Red Army advanced and shelling continued.



Final Picture of Fuhrer.
On 2 may, Berlin surrendered. There have been conflicting reports about what happened to Hitler's remains. According to Russian reports, they dug up the remains, which were reburied by SMERSH at their headquarters in Magdeburg.




This final, macabre act of self-destruction appropriately symbolized the career of a political leader whose main legacy to Europe was the ruin of its civilization and the senseless sacrifice of human life for the sake of power and his own commitment to the bestial nonsense of National Socialist race mythology. With his death nothing was left of the "Greater Germanic Reich," of the tyrannical power structure and ideological system which had devastated Europe during the twelve years of his totalitarian rule.