Swiss Volunteers in International Brigades (1936-1938)
Abstract
During the Spanish Civil War thousands of foreigners fought in both armies. Franco received mainly regular military from Italy (more than 70,000) and from Germany (19,000 in several replacements). The International Brigades constituted the largest contingent that supported the Republic by framing some 35,000 volunteers from around fifty countries. Among them, about 800 Swiss, of those who died around 200. Few people in Spain know the existence of this Swiss contingent, whose members had serious problems returning to their country because Switzerland had forbidden to support or fight in the Spanish armies to reaffirm its traditional neutrality policy.
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