Foreign Contribution
Not all members of the Italian resistance were of Italian nationality. There were also many foreign soldiers who had escaped POW camps or had joined guerrilla bands as leaders of the so-called "military missions". Among them Yugoslavs, Russians, Ukrainians, Dutch, Spanish anti-fascists, Greeks, Poles, as well as some Germans disillusioned by national socialism. And of course British and Americans, either ex-prisoners or advisors deployed by SOE, SAS and OSS. Some of them later became well-known to the public, such as climber and explorer Bill Tilman, reporter and historian Peter Tompkins, former Royal Air Force pilot Manfred Czernin, and architect Oliver Churchill.
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