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Enric Marco moved a chamber of Spanish politicians to tears with vivid speeches about surviving a Nazi concentration camp. Almost none of it was true.
This episode unpacks how a genuinely brave anarchist union leader invented a false victim identity, led a national survivors association for years, and was finally exposed by a historian's paper trail.
- Volunteering as a contract labor worker in Nazi Germany in 1941
- Choosing Flossenberg to avoid other Spanish witnesses
- Publishing memoirs and infiltrating legitimate history books
- Historian Benito Bermejo uncovering the original 1941 labor contract
- His 2005 confession days before a Mauthausen commemoration