Spaniards in the Holocaust : Mauthausen, the horror on the Danube / David Wingeate Pike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pike, David Wingeate.

Series:

Routledge/Canada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain ; 2.

Routledge/Canada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mauthausen (Concentration camp).

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.

World War, 1939-1945.

Prisoners of war--Spain.

Prisoners of war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Book 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

International 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

Reds 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

Punishment and impunity for the SS criminalsEpilogue; Notes; Annexes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-426) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-58712-0

1-134-58713-9

1-138-00749-8

1-280-04586-8

0-203-36123-7

9780203361238

OCLC:

437083170