LEADER 04517oam 2200685I 450 001 9910783850503321 005 20230422044324.0 010 $a1-134-58712-0 010 $a1-134-58713-9 010 $a1-138-00749-8 010 $a1-280-04586-8 010 $a0-203-36123-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203361238 035 $a(CKB)1000000000253877 035 $a(EBL)180410 035 $a(OCoLC)437083170 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284361 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209847 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284361 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10261310 035 $a(PQKB)10993700 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC180410 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL180410 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10097367 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL4586 035 $a(OCoLC)56756885 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000253877 100 $a20180331d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpaniards in the Holocaust $eMauthausen, the horror on the Danube /$fDavid Wingeate Pike 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (460 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge/Can?ada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-203-37799-0 311 $a0-415-22780-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [417]-426) and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations, acronyms and portmanteau words; A glossary of terms; Comparative ranks; The SS archipelago; Captives in the Channel Islands; Deported to the Stalags; The Spaniards and the KZ universe; Classification and stratification; Opposing programmes: extenuation versus extermination; Everyday life in the KZ; Oranienburg, Buchenwald and Mauthausen compared; The survival of the evidence; Mauthausen, Category Three; The arrival; The outer circle: the SS staff; The inner circle: the Kapos; The first Spanish contingents 327 $aInternational friction and the brothelThe Spaniards as seen by others; The paradox of entertainment; The Revier, antechamber of death; The quarry and the 186 steps; Local Kommandos; The Nebenlager; Schloss Hartheim and the mobile gas chamber; Escape and the SS response; Survival; The nucleus of a resistance; A Spaniard enters the Central Administration Office; A Spaniard enters the photo lab; Franco's consulate in Vienna; A marriage at Auschwitz; Holy Night; A visit to Melk; An international committee forms; Atrocities against Allied prisoners; The Resistance forms a military branch 327 $aReds and Blues replace the Greens and BlacksIncidents in the photo lab; The Soviet break-out from the Death Block; Mauthausen as the terminus of evacuation; Growing fears of a general massacre; The evacuation of the last Nebenlager; The photos and the Poschacher boys; The departure of the SS; Liberation; The Soviet assault from the east; The American assault from the west; The liberation of Gusen and Mauthausen; The night of 5 6 May; The return of the Americans to Mauthausen; Ebensee: the last liberation; The American-Soviet link-up; The final German surrender 327 $aPunishment and impunity for the SS criminalsEpilogue; Notes; Annexes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis important work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible camps in Nazi Germany. Refugees from the repercussions of the Civil War, 7,000 Spanish Republicans were arrested in France by the invading Nazis in the collapse of 1940. A microcosm of the experience of national prisoner communities, their story possesses a unique historical value. No other national group succeeded in placing its members in all the key clerical positions in the SS administration, and no other group managed to hide and 410 0$aRoutledge/Can?ada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain ;$v2. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, German 606 $aPrisoners of war$zSpain 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, German. 615 0$aPrisoners of war 676 $a940.54/7243/094362 700 $aPike$b David Wingeate.$0245416 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783850503321 996 $aSpaniards in the Holocaust$93682610 997 $aUNINA