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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

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I didn't write. I just wandered about.

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Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

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I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

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In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

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There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

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It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

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And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

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Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: November 8th, 1908

Died: February 15th, 1998

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