Edwin P. Hoyt, an American military historian and journalist, served in the US Air Force, worked for the War Information Office from 1943 to 1945, and later became a journalist and taught at the university.
After a terrible defeat in the spring of 1940, the 1st Division of Free France was formed in the Middle East from volunteers coming from England, all colonies and escaping from a humiliated and enslaved homeland.
The young printing worker Karel Štajner joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1919 with faith in the world socialist revolution and in the correctness of Stalinist dogmas.