 The foremost were that Bose had abandoned them and left them entirely in German hands, and a perception that the "Wehrmacht" was now going to use them in the Western Front instead of sending them to fight for independence.The attitude of the Legion's soldiers was similar to that of the Italian "Battaglione Azad Hindoustan", which had been of dubious loyalty to the Axis cause—it was disbanded after a mutiny.In one instance, immediately prior to the first deployment of the Legion in the Netherlands in April 1943, after the departure of the 1st Battalion from Königsbrück, two companies within the 2nd Battalion refused to move until convinced by Indian leaders.