Spaniards in the Holocaust: Mauthausen, Horror on the Danube (Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain)

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This important work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible camps in Nazi Germany. Refugees from the repercussions of the Civil War, 7,000 Spanish Republicans were arrested in France by the invading Nazis in the collapse of 1940. A microcosm of the experience of national prisoner communities, their story possesses a unique historical value. No other national group succeeded in placing its members in all the key clerical positions in the SS administration, and no other group managed to hide and save all its basic records.
Vilified by Franco and condemned by Hitler, their story makes an outstanding contribution to the literature of the holocaust.

Spaniards in the Holocaust: Mauthausen, Horror on the Danube (Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain) Review

This book is focused on the terrible experience of a particular group of prisoners in the not so well known concentration camp of Mathausen and its minor branch Gusen. The peculiarity of the Spaniards concentrated there was that they came from the devastating Spanish Civil War, and to the depressing and terrible need for exile they had to add their capture while fighting against Nazis in France during IIWW. Paradoxically their previous experience of war, suffering and organization in Republican Spain contributed to their possibilities of survival. But the real centre of the book, at least for me, was that it shows that solidarity, moral principles and complete identification with the destiny of the rest of their fellowcitizens and some other non-Spanish prisoners allowed them to face up to the depravity and iniquity of their Kapos and SS officials without any loss of dignity or self-esteem. Besides, several of them managed to keep proofs in the form of photos, files and other documents that were of enormous help in the Nuremberg processes.

Yes,Hell,Horror and eventually Death can be faced up without condescending to cowardice, self-degradation or despair.

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