Historia de Barcelona

Etiqueta: alemania

  • Los horrores del campo de concentración de Dachau: Carlos Sentís en La Vanguardia

    En el vasto mundo anglosajón hay una cosa que impresiona casi más que el final de la guerra en sí: el de los campos de concentración alemanes.

    Yo sólo ha visitado uno. El de Dachau, en las afueras de Munich. Casi el último caído en manos del Ejército norteamericano. Visitándolo pasé un rato horroroso. Ahora, sobre el limpio papel donde escribo, no lo paso mucho mejor. Dante no vio nada y por eso pudo escribir sus patéticas páginas del infierno. Yo sí he visto Dachau y quizá por eso no sepa escribirlo. Lamento no ser notario para escribir un formulario con el léxico impersonal da los protocolos. Pero creo que puedo de todas maneras escribir en primera persona porque ni un solo lector que me haya seguido sobre la Prensa de España ha podido dudar jamás de mi ecuanimidad. A la cuenta de mi historial cargo el «doy fe». Se me dirá que más a Oriente de la propia Europa puede haber otros campos aterradores. Desgraciadamente, se puede creer en ellos. Pero no los he visto. Si los viese, moveríaexactamente mi pluma con la serenidad con que lo hago ahora.

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  • El colaboracionista nazi, Pierre Laval, «tejiendo suéteres en la cárcel Montjuic para calmarse»

    Worried Laval Knits Woolies To Quiet Nerves

    LONDON, July 24 (UP). A Madrid dispatch to the Evening Standard said today that Pierre Laval, morbid and depressed, sits every day in the Mediterranean sunshine knitting winter woolies to quiet his nerves.

    Laval, former Vichy Chief of Government, fled to Barcelona in the last days of the European war. The dispatch said the stalemate over his status might be broken soon when Spain’s reorganized cabinet settles down to work.

    «It is believed that the new foreign minister may induce Laval to give himself up to France,» it said.

  • Pierre Laval, ex primer ministro del gobierno de Vichy, es deportado a Francia

    Laval Reported in Allied Hands After Franco Gives Him the Gate from Spain

    BARCELONA – Ordered out of Spain by General Franco, Pierre Laval and his wife left Barcelona airdrome early yesterday morning, aboard a Junkers divebomber, headed for an unannounced destination. The French quisling has been ordered to stand trial in Paris within the next eight days.

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    Originally, the ancient Junkers aircraft was scheduled to leave Spain, Monday night. Laval actually got into the plane and it taxied around the Barcelona airfield three times, trying to get off the ground. When it rolled to a stop, Laval got out of the plane and sat on a camp stool while the German pilots tinkered with the engine. Finally they announced it would take several hours again to get the plane working, so the flight was postponed until the next day.

    Laval, wearing his usual white tie, himself provided a clue to his destination when he said: «If Petain can face the music, so can I?»

    Later he complained: «It’s unfair what is being done with me. I don’t understand why the Spanish Government is delivering me to my country.» Spanish officers were at the airfield to see Laval off.

    After Monday night’s flight had been postponed, the events of the day, combined with the heat, proved too much for Laval. He fainted, but revived shortly.

    From the moment that Laval and his party left the Montjuich fortress, Mme Laval was in tears. Although Spanish authorities told her that she could stay in Spain if she wished, she insisted on accompanying her husband.

    During his stay at Montjuich castle, Laval lived well on the best food and wines served by a Ritz waiter. But as an indication of Spain’s change of attitude, a Spanish official at Barcelona who once described Laval’s case as «interesting» now calls him «a dirty fellow.»

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