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Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work. Diverse accounts from survivors of Mauthausen, chronicled in letters, artwork, photographs, memoirs, fiction, film, theatre, and new media, illustrate how Spaniards have become cognizant of the Spanish government's relationship to the Nazis and its role in the victimization of Spanish nationals in Mauthausen. As political prisoners, their numbers and experiences differ significantly from the millions of Jews exterminated by Hitler, yet the Spaniards in Mauthausen were nevertheless objects of Nazi violence and witnesses to the Holocaust.

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Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015 is a painstaking and definitive book on the subject. -- Ariel Dorfma * The New York Review of Books *

A painstaking and definitive book. -- Ariel Dorfman * The New York Review of Books * Brenneis has crafted a cohesive and thought-provoking study on the experiences of Spaniards in Mauthausen, which is underpinned by meticulous research, and engagingly written. A strength of the book is its multidisciplinary approach, combining theories of narrative and memory with Holocaust Studies and historiography. Spaniards in Mauthausen is a valuable contribution not only to Spanish cultural history, but also to Holocaust Studies, and likely to stimulate important critical debate. -- Andrea Hepworth, Victoria University of Wellington * <em>Bulletin of Spanish Studies</em> * Spaniards in Mauthausen advances historical memory discourse by contributing new voices to the conversation as it brings forth representations of Spaniards from concentration camps to form a part of the historiography of the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship. -- Wendy Perla Kurtz * <em>Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies</em> * Brenneis' work critically analyzes an unfamiliar topic from a cultural perspective. The book immerses us in a complex history, which is only now slowly being revealed to Spanish society. -- Santiago Lopez Rodriguez * <em>Holocaust and Genocide Studies</em> *

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Sara J. Brenneis is a professor of Spanish at Amherst College in Massachusetts.

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