- Enric Marco
Enric Marco (born 1921 in
Barcelona ) is animpostor who claimed to have been aprison er in German Naziconcentration camp sMauthausen andFlossenburg inWorld War II . He was awarded the Cross of Saint Jordi by the Catalan government in 2001 and wrote a book on his experiences. In 2005 he admitted his claims were false and returned his medal, after his deception was revealed by university researcherBenito Bermejo ."I admit I never was interned in the Flossenburg camp, though I was in preventive detention accused of plotting against the
Third Reich "," said Marco. He was released after a few weeks of maltreatment and returned toSpain in 1943. In fact Marco had volunteered in 1941 to work in Kiel for the nazi war industry. In his forged stories Marco had claimed he had been involved in the French resistance and captured by the Gestapo in south France.After 2001 Marco represented an association which gathered some survivors of the thousands of Spaniards who had truly been deported to nazi concentration camps.
In the time 1978-1979 Marco, a metal worker, had been the General Secretary of the Spanish anarchist Union CNT (
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ), from which he was expelled in 1980.External links
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1608303,00.html Times online]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1481811,00.html The Guardian: Spain's concentration camp hero is exposed as a fraud]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4539461.stm BBC]References
*The Times,
14 may 2005 .
*"Memories of Hell" Enric Marco, 1978.
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