Spaniards in the Holocaust: Mauthausen, Horror on the Danube - Rilegato

Pike, David Wingeate

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0415227801 ISBN 13: 9780415227803

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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This important new work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible of the Nazi camps. Among the hundreds of thousands of prisoners who entered Mauthausen were 7,000 Spanish Republicans who had fought in the Civil War and found refuge in France, only to be arrested by the Germans in the French collapse of 1940. Their story represents a microcosm of the experience of national prisoner communities, and 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. This book is the first full-length account in English of the horrors of Mauthausen. It includes not only what the Spaniards endured but what they witnessed, such as the treatment of the Jews and the mass breakout of Soviet officers in the Death Block. The book concludes with the first account in English of the Battle of Austria and the assault of the US 'Thunderbolt' Division, which ended with the liberation of Mauthausen. Spaniards in the Holocaust makes an outstanding contribution to the literature of the Holocaust. It also presents a wealth of material of vital interest to historians of both the Second World War, and the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. _ _ _ _ _ _

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415227801
• ISBN 13: 9780415227803
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 472