Editing Franc Rozman (section)

==Military experience prior to World War II==
In 1935, after the [[Second Italo–Abyssinian War|Italian invasion of Ethiopia]], Rozman tried unsuccessfully to join the Ethiopian forces fighting the Italian invaders. Soon after the outbreak of the [[Spanish Civil War]], he decided to travel to Spain. Rozman was among the first Yugoslav volunteers in Spain, where he, on 1 October 1936 joined the [[International Brigades]]. In November 1936 he became a member of the Spanish Communist Party.<ref name="Klanjscek"/><ref name="Mala"/>

In [[Jarama]] he completed non commissioned officers' school, became a lieutenant and a commander of a company, then captain and commander of a battalion. His comrades in arms remembered him as an energetic and earnest person. After the Spanish Civil War, he was imprisoned in France.{{Why|date=March 2016}}<ref name="Klanjscek"/> He became a member of the Yugoslav Communist Party in 1939.<ref name="Mala"/> In April 1941 he was imprisoned and sentenced to forced labor in Germany. In July the same year he fled Germany and returned to Yugoslavia.<ref name="Klanjscek"/>