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Enric Marco (c.1920) claimed to have been a prisoner in GermanNaziconcentration campsMauthausen and Flossenburg in World 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 it was a lie and returned his medal, after it was revealed by university researcher Benito Bermejo. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that Internment be merged into this article or section. ... Mauthausen is a small town in Upper Austria about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz. ... Flossenbürg concentration camp was a German prison built in 1938 at Flossenbürg, in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Anthem: Els Segadors Capital Barcelona Official language(s) Catalan, Spanish, and Aranese Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 6th 32,114 km² 6. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
"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 to Spain in 1943. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...
Marco represented for many years the thousands of Spaniards who had truly been deported to concentration camps by Francisco Franco. Franco redirects here. ...
Much better, Marco worked for the Nazis as a migrant worker in Nazi-Germany and was "deported" by the German authorities in 1943 back to his safe homeland, Spain.
EnricMarco, who published a book entitled "Memories of Hell" in 1978 about his experiences, confessed he had invented his account of suffering in Germany's Flossenburg concentration camp.
Marco confessed in a statement he had invented his story of fleeing Spain as a leftist exile in the wake of the country's bloody 1936-1939 civil war.
EnricMarco told Spanish TV he was never held in the Nazi concentration camp of Flossenburg as he had claimed for nearly 30 years.
Mr Marco, 84, was head of the Amical de Mauthausen group, named after the camp in Austria where the Nazis held most of their Spanish political prisoners.
Despite Mr Marco's claim to be raising awareness of the Holocaust, Mr Bermejo warns that his lies could have the opposite effect.
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