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Let's look at an example. May 5th marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria<\/strong> by the United States Army. Between 1938 and 1945, Hitler's dictatorship sent around 190,000 people to that camp, of whom more than 90,000 were murdered<\/strong>. Among the prisoners and those murdered were people of different nationalities. This is a Spanish blog, so I'll emphasize that 7,200 Spaniards were sent to that camp, of whom 5,000 were murdered.<\/strong> These prisoners were mostly Spanish Republican exiles in France, who fled to that country at the end of the Spanish Civil War for fear of being murdered in their own country.<\/p>\n On the occasion of the aforementioned anniversary, last Sunday, May 11, an official ceremony was held in Mauthausen in memory of those murdered<\/strong>, attended by the Federal President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen. The King and Queen of Spain attended this ceremony<\/strong>, not to pay tribute to the ideology of the Spaniards who were murdered there (there were republicans, anarchists, socialists, communists...), but to pay tribute to thousands of Spaniards who were murdered by a criminal regime<\/strong> that perpetrated crimes of genocide. I do not share the ideology of those murdered, and I find it abhorrent that they were sent to a concentration camp and murdered there.<\/p>\n
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