In February 1939, after the English Civil War, thousands of Repub was defeated Lican ie v were forced to flee Spain, many wounded war and leaving behind his family took refuge in southern France, where he was imprisoned in concentration camps. That same year, began s econd World War and many English were sent to the front as French soldiers or integrated years in the Foreign Workers Companies, engaged in making fortifications to defend the German invasion, Maginot line. The Nazis were about 40,000 English prisoners were int egrados in a prisoner of war, called Stalags . Some ran worse luck than the rest and then were transferred to Mauthausen, a Nazi concentration camp in Austria, a third-class qualified field of extermination.
Once there, the Nazis stripped of his clothes, his belongings and even their identity, assigning a number and a blue triangle, a symbol of stateless persons (because Spain did not recognize), with a S of Spanier. Thus begins the drama to some 7,300 English, two thirds of whom also wrested his life. Starving prisoners were tortured, exploited and treated like animals ... many were falling to their friends, their family and could not do anything. One of the most infamous torture was to climb the 186 steps they called "ladder of death" filled with huge boulders that extracted of the quarry. They could not stop, just rely on their bare legs undernourished people to make them reach the top of the stairs. "Coming up represented a victory," explained José Aresté, detention camp 5807.
prisoners had to endure not only bad 
treatment f ISIC but also psychological torture. Mauthausen Square was surrounded by showers, gas chambers, the dissection room and crematoria, which gave off a foul chimney smoke that smelled of burning flesh da. Ashes human were breathed in by all the inmates of the camp and the SS, constantly warning them to Mauthausen was entered on foot, but that went out the chimney.
Finally, in May 1945, U.S. troops liberated the camp. Were greeted by a banner made by the English in the that read: "The English fascist salute to the liberating forces." Until that day, at the gate of Mauthausen had a great figure of ra pied imperial eagle holding an acoustic Esva in its claws, but many inmates were involved in its demolition, all a symbol of the Nazi regime fell to the ground thanks to those who had suffered all their barbarism.
witnesses now are leaving us forever, but gr acias the courage they have shown countless times to face their past, their stories are ours, their memory is ours. We tell their story so that their names do not fall into utter oblivion, we must not forget the thousands of English history, people of our country, our people or our family. Everyone knows what the man did once with the man.
Liberación de Mauthausen
José Aresté
LINKS DE INTERÉS:
Página web de la asociación Amical de Mauthausen y otros campos: www.amical-mauthausen.org
Página web de José Aresté: www.arestejose.com
Boletín de Amical de Mauthausen de septiembre de 2008: viaje al campo en mayo de 2008 y artículo sobre Manuel Rausa (Ballobar): http://www.amical-mauthausen.org/butlletins/Boletin-29cast.pdf
Ferrer Juan Camacho, a survivor of Mauthausen: http://www.cgtandalucia.org/spip.php?article1859
José María Villegas is dead Left: http://www.cnt. es/node/143
Some men who survived the 'Doctor Death' today try to forget: http://www.imperioromano.com/blog/?p=1044
David Moyano Interview "I want justice for the English killed by the Nazi Holocaust" http://www.diariosur.es/20080625/espana/david-moyano-quiero-justicia-20080625.html
Mauthausen, the Nazi inferno: http://villarrubia.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/mauthausen-el-infierno-nazi/
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