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Bose's views on the Nazis' main victims, the Jews, and specifically on the Jewish refugees, were also ambiguous. He wrote to his wife in 1937: "The Jews in Europe have attained so many positions because they are very skilful and the Aryans are very stupid [dumm] - otherwise, how could the foreigners [sic] in Europe make such progress?" Bose also accused his Congress colleague Nehru of "seeking to make India an asylum for Jews" in early 1939, knowing full well that their number would, at most, amount to a few thousand in a population of three hundred million. So, while Bose's opinions did not stem from a place of deep ideological antisemitism, his partial ignorance of the situation for Jews in Germany and Europe at that time, combined with his political allegiances and priorities, led him to suspect that Jewish refugees being sent to India was just another manifestation of Britain flexing its colonial might, of political power play, rather than a reluctant and insufficient response to a rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis.
