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Auro Roselli, born in Pescara in 1921, was an Italian resistant, journalist, photographer, writer and inventor. == Early resistance and the war years == Roselli grew up in a working class district of Turin. His father, Gherardo Roselli, was a sculptor, and his mother a homemaker. From his father and his teacher of Humanities, Gaudenzio Manfredi, he learned to question authority under Fascism. This landed him briefly in jail at age thirteen, his first political imprisonment. Growing up, he became attracted to the English language, Anglo American culture, and the international and liberal democratic vision they provided. A brief attendance at the University of Turin in the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures was interrupted in 1940 by military draft into the cadet officers' course of the Alpini troops. There he was arrested on suspicion of having conspired against Fascism with some other students arrested in Turin〔Zangrandi, Ruggiero. ''Il lungo viaggio attraverso il fascismo''. Feltrinelli Editore, Milano, 1964, p.502.〕 Roselli was tried in the ''Tribunale Speciale per la Difesa dello Stato'' in Rome, and sentenced to two and a half years in the penitentiary of Forte Urbano, in the Emilia region.〔Roselli, Lucia. ''Mio fratello ando' in galera''. L'Arciere, 1990.〕 He was liberated after the fall of the Mussolini government, in the brief interregnum and political amnesty under General Badoglio. On September 8, 1943, the Italian army collapsed and Nazi forces occupied Italy. Roselli first joined a monarchist partisan formation in the Lanzo valley, west of Turin. Later, he worked with the ''Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale'', guiding escaped Allied prisoners to neutral Switzerland. Caught with group of them at the railway station of Novara, he managed to escape, and eventually made his way to Switzerland and the refugee camp of Tramelan. Among his encounters there was Piero Chiara, later renowned as a writer, who was recruiting students for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA. Escaping from the work camp, he returned to Italy. The first village he came to was in the mountains of Lake Como. There, under the ''nom de guerre'' of Gigi, he founded a partisan formation with some local young men and Lombard students who refused to collaborate with the Nazi Occupation. Their activities consisted of raiding Fascist controlled barracks and warehouses, gathering and distributing information, and guiding fugitives from the Nazis to Switzerland. His new formation was part of the Garibaldi Brigades, under Communist control. In disagreement with his command on both political ideology and military strategy, Roselli resigned his command and returned to Switzerland. There he joined ''Giustizia e Libertà'', a formation supported and armed by the OSS. Upon hearing the news that the Resistance had gained control of Milan, Roselli and his new partisan comrades immediately returned to Italy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Auro Roselli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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