Spaniards in Mauthausen : Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015

Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work. Diverse accounts from survivors of Mauthausen, chronicled in letters, artwork, photographs, memoirs, fiction, film, theatre, and new media, illustrate how Spaniards have become cognizant of the Spanish government’s relationship to the Nazis and its role in the victimization of Spanish nationals in Mauthausen. As political prisoners, their numbers and experiences differ significantly from the millions of Jews exterminated by Hitler, yet the Spaniards in Mauthausen were nevertheless objects of Nazi violence and witnesses to the Holocaust. Contents 7 Illustrations 9 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction: Memory And Legacy Of The Holocaust In Spain 15 1. The View From Inside: Clandestine Representations And Testimony Of Mauthausen, 1940–1946 53 2. Postwar Impressions: The First Published Representations Of The Camp, 1945–1963 98 3 Transitions: Early Accounts Of Mauthausen, 1970 S 154 4. Memories Unleashed: Mauthausen After Franco, 1980–2015 195 5. Mauthausen Today 263 Notes 285 Works Cited 337 Index 355 "Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work."-- Provided by publisher