Today, May 5, the Day of Tribute to the Spanish deported and killed in Mauthausen and other camps and to all the victims of Nazism in Spain is commemorated. The date chosen by the central government coincides with the birthday of the liberation, in 1945, of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (Austria), where 8.000 Spaniards suffered the Nazi horror.
The Dénia City Council has joined this commemoration with the offering of a laurel wreath to the plaque that, in the municipal cemetery, remembers the four dianenses who passed through Mauthausen.
The councilman of Culture, Raúl García de la Reina, has remembered their names, "because as the last sentence of this plaque says, we never want them to be erased from history". “The Dianenses Asensio Vives, Jaime Crespo and José Ramis died in this concentration camp; a fourth, Vicente Pérez, managed to survive him, but did not manage to return to the city before his death. Horror, then, is very close to us.
The event was attended by family members: Bernat Cardona, Josep Antoni Ahuir, Irene Giner and Teresa Pérez. The latter, daughter of Vicente Pérez, together with the mayor, Vicent Grimalt, has deposited the wreath offered at the foot of the commemorative plaque.
Josep Antoni Ahuir, historian, has dedicated a few words to remember the reason for the commemoration of this date: “Mauthausen-Gusen are the fields where there were more Valencians. This act is the result of the need to remember so as not to repeat the past ”.
That was a long time ago.
Now we have the psoe ruling with the murderous Nazis of ETA and secessionist coup leaders that nest in Catalonia
That is more serious.
And they are already paying it in Madrid.
It is curious that several Nazi war criminals who were taken in by the Spanish government, when they escaped from the allies at the end of the Second World War, are also buried in that same cemetery. They were greeted with peace of mind enjoying a golden retreat along with a host of privileges. The families of the former can go to visit the graves of the Nazis. This is known to everyone but nobody talks about it.