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Title: Mauthausen
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National Vanguard
URL Source: http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5032
Published: May 11, 2005
Author: N/A
Post Date: 2005-05-12 11:48:58 by 1776
Keywords: Mauthausen
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Communist's book about his incarceration at the Flossenburg camp is a fraud.
MADRID - A Spanish citizen who was chairman of an association of Spanish communists deported from France to German concentration camps during World War II has admitted his tale of surviving the Flossenburg camp in Austria was a lie.
Enric Marco (pictured), 84, chaired the survivors' association right up until the eve of this week's 60th anniversary of the surrender of the camp. He was already in Austria for the ceremony when the news of his deception emerged. A historian researching the anniversary used the opportunity to look into events at Flossenburg -- and failed to find any trace of Mr. Marco ever having been there.
Mr. Marco has given hundreds of conferences in schools about his pretended experiences and wrote a biography called Memory of Hell in 1978. He was also secretary general of the Communist CNT union and chairman of a pupil-parents federation.
Spain was neutral in World War II following its civil war, which ended in 1939, but thousands of communists and pro-communists hostile to the victorious regime of General Francisco Franco fled to France where they were interned in camps and from which many were later deported to Germany.
Marco told reporters, "I admit I never was interned in the Flossenburg camp, though I was in preventative detention accused of plotting against the Third Reich," he said.
He said he was freed and sent back to Spain in 1943.
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The whole thing is a big fraud for which if you say it you are sent to prison in several nations.
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