Eduardo Martínez Alonso was behind hundreds of escapes across the PyreneesThe exact location of clandestine river crossings used to help Jews and Allied spies and servicemen to flee Nazi-controlled Europe has been discovered in the secret file of a Spanish doctor who worked for British intelligence. Eduardo Martínez Alonso, who lived in Glasgow as a child and studied medicine at Liverpool University, was ostensibly a physician at the British embassy in Madrid during the Second World War. But he doubled as what newly discovered files from the archive of the Special Operations Executive called “the principal agent in assisting SOE bodies out of Spain”. SponsoredAfter the SOE was formed by Churchill, Martínez helped hundreds of the up to 50,000 British airmen, Jews and others who fled by crossing the Pyrenees. After meeting them in the

Source: The North Africa Journal June 04, 2021 23:00 UTC