Spaniards in the Holocaust: Mauthausen, Horror on the Danube

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ISBN: 9780415227803 | 0415227801
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/30/2000

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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.

List of plates

Preface

xii

Acknowledgements

xvii

Abbreviations, acronyms and portmanteau words

xxi

A glossary of terms

xxiii

Comparative ranks

xxv

PART I The SS archipelago

(42)

Captives in the Channel Islands

(6)

Deported to the Stalags

(2)

The Spaniards and the KZ universe

(3)

Classification and stratification

(4)

Opposing programmes: extenuation versus extermination

(4)

Everyday life in the KZ

(7)

Oranienburg, Buchenwald and Mauthausen compared

(3)

The survival of the evidence

(11)

PART II Mauthausen, Category Three

(78)

The arrival

(6)

The outer circle: the SS staff

(9)

The inner circle: the Kapos

(3)

The first Spanish contingents

(6)

International friction and the brothel

(6)

The Spaniards as seen by others

(4)

The paradox of entertainment

(4)

The Revier, antechamber of death

(6)

The quarry and the 186 steps

(4)

Local Kommandos

(2)

The Nebenlager

(14)

Schloss Hartheim and the mobile gas chamber

109

(3)

Escape and the SS response

112

(9)

PART III Survival

121

(96)

The nucleus of a resistance

123

(4)

A Spaniard enters the Central Administration Office

127

(6)

A Spaniard enters the photo lab

133

(11)

Franco's consulate in Vienna

144

(4)

A marriage at Auschwitz

148

(2)

Holy Night

150

(5)

A visit to Melk

155

(2)

An international committee forms

157

(4)

Atrocities against Allied prisoners

161

(4)

The Resistance forms a military branch

165

(5)

Reds and Blues replace the Greens and Blacks

170

(3)

Incidents in the photo lab

173

(5)

The Soviet break-out from the Death Block

178

(7)

Mauthausen as the terminus of evacuation

185

(7)

Growing fears of a general massacre

192

(7)

The evacuation of the last Nebenlager

199

(5)

The photos and the Poschacher boys

204

(4)

The departure of the SS

208

(9)

PART IV Liberation

217

(96)

The Soviet assault from the east

219

(6)

The American assault from the west

225

(8)

The liberation of Gusen and Mauthausen

233

(7)

The night of 5--6 May

240

(13)

The return of the Americans to Mauthausen

253

(11)

Ebensee: the last liberation

264

(6)

The American--Soviet link-up

270

(3)

The final German surrender

273

(7)

Punishment and impunity for the SS criminals

280

(33)

Epilogue

293

(20)

Notes

313

(76)

Annexes

389

(28)

Bibliography

417

(10)

Index

427

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