Date:21/06/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/21/stories/2008062155281400.htm

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“Hitler’s car was taken to India”

Kathmandu: A Mercedes purportedly gifted by Adolf Hitler to ousted King Gyanendra’s grandfather is not in Narayanhiti palace as claimed by Nepal officials but was taken to India in 1943, a former Rana Prime Minister’s daughter has claimed.

Hitler had donated olive-green Daimler-Benz not to King Tribhuvan, the titular head, but to Rana dynasty Prime Minister Juddha Shumsher Rana in 1939 to win the Gorkha soldiers to his side during the World War II, said Juddha Shumsher’s daughter Janak Rajya Laxmi Shah (92).

She said Juddha Shumsher, who was the seventh Rana Prime Minister, left to settle in Dehradun after ruling for 13 years, in 1945 and took the car with him. — PTI