Schorsch
2005-05-12 17:45:12 UTC
Another bunch of 'pious lies' about "the Holocaust"!
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'Survivor' admits faking story
AP
May 13, 2005
MADRID: The head of a group of Spanish World War II concentration camp
survivors has admitted after decades he faked his story.
Enric Marco, 84, was removed from his post as president of the
Barcelona-based Amical Mauthausen support group this week after
admitting he had never been in Mauthausen's Flossenbuerg camp,
association board member Margarita Sala said.
Mr Marco claimed in hundreds of interviews and lectures, and even in a
1978 book titled Memoria del Infierno (Memory of Hell), that he had
suffered the horror of the Nazi camps.
"It's been a major shock. Only Marco can tell why he did it," Ms Sala
said.
Mr Marco had been a member of the association for the past six years
and its president for the past two.
Ms Sala said suspicion was raised at a meeting on May 1 following
rumours a local historian was claiming that Mr Marco's story didn't add
up.
At a meeting the next day, Mr Marco stood by his story and even
attended last week's ceremonies to commemorate the 60th anniversary of
the liberation of the camps.
Once in Austria, however, he admitted to colleagues the historian was
right and was recalled to Spain immediately, Ms Sala said.
Mr Marco then issued a statement admitting he had made up his story
about being in a Nazi concentration camp.
He said that rather than being deported from Spain at the end of the
Spanish Civil War in 1939, he had left for Germany as part of a Spanish
workers' group in 1941. He returned to Spain in 1943, well before the
liberation of the camps in 1945.
Mr Marco said he had "never lied out of malice".
"I thought that people would pay more attention to me and I could
better spread the word of the suffering of the many people who were in
the concentration camps."
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15270527%255E2703,00.html
____________________________________________________________________
'Survivor' admits faking story
AP
May 13, 2005
MADRID: The head of a group of Spanish World War II concentration camp
survivors has admitted after decades he faked his story.
Enric Marco, 84, was removed from his post as president of the
Barcelona-based Amical Mauthausen support group this week after
admitting he had never been in Mauthausen's Flossenbuerg camp,
association board member Margarita Sala said.
Mr Marco claimed in hundreds of interviews and lectures, and even in a
1978 book titled Memoria del Infierno (Memory of Hell), that he had
suffered the horror of the Nazi camps.
"It's been a major shock. Only Marco can tell why he did it," Ms Sala
said.
Mr Marco had been a member of the association for the past six years
and its president for the past two.
Ms Sala said suspicion was raised at a meeting on May 1 following
rumours a local historian was claiming that Mr Marco's story didn't add
up.
At a meeting the next day, Mr Marco stood by his story and even
attended last week's ceremonies to commemorate the 60th anniversary of
the liberation of the camps.
Once in Austria, however, he admitted to colleagues the historian was
right and was recalled to Spain immediately, Ms Sala said.
Mr Marco then issued a statement admitting he had made up his story
about being in a Nazi concentration camp.
He said that rather than being deported from Spain at the end of the
Spanish Civil War in 1939, he had left for Germany as part of a Spanish
workers' group in 1941. He returned to Spain in 1943, well before the
liberation of the camps in 1945.
Mr Marco said he had "never lied out of malice".
"I thought that people would pay more attention to me and I could
better spread the word of the suffering of the many people who were in
the concentration camps."
__________________________________________________________________
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15270527%255E2703,00.html