Spain's concentration camp hero is exposed as a fraud

[emad]

Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Thursday May 12, 2005
The Guardian

For almost 30 years Enric Marco was a living witness to the thousands of exiled leftwing Spaniards who ended up in Nazi concentration camps.

After he revealed how he had been arrested in Vichy France and imprisoned in the camps in the second world war, his plight symbolised the human cost of a secret alliance between Hitler and the Spanish dictator General Franco.

He had been chosen by fellow survivors of the camps, where more than 8,000 Spaniards died, to represent them as they sought, after decades of silence under Franco, to tell their story and demand compensation.

Several times a week Mr Marco would recount his tale to classrooms of schoolchildren, journalists and, recently, the Spanish parliament.
"They were not mad, or sadistic, they were worse than that, they were bureaucrats of a fascist Europe that believed it would last for a thousand years," he told the parliament in Madrid this year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1481810,00.html

[Auntie Bush]

1. So bush* isn't the only one that LIES!

[jobycom]

2. Wow, his lie did a lot of good, but it was a lie... Interesting ethical

debate.

I mean, it would be like discovering that the Catholic Church had lied for 2000 years about Jesus being married, and had suppressed a secret organization who had proof but chose to hide it rather than reveal it...

Sorry, hard to tell fiction from reality...