Enric Marco, ex-president of the Spain’s main deportees’ association, embarks on a car trip to Germany, a demytholog | dG1fNE1SSWl1b0V2SnM
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00:00What is certain is that he is a great narrator, a great actor or a great narrator, in a good sense of the word, in all, in dialectical capacity, in good communication, in the times that Pau says, in the order of the discourse of experience, and then in putting those emotional spikes that hit you, that shock you a lot and that people could not leave indifferent in any way.
00:24How do you understand? For example, one night in that room, in the block, in the barracks, one night in the barracks, where you breathe, where you see a dense air, a cloudy air and thick with humanity, of those people, the ones with their snores, but there is a moment in which there is a huge silence and at a given moment you hear a howl, a howl, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a cry, a
00:54cry, a cry, a cry.
01:02The people who are in the concentration camps
01:04normally never explain what happened to them in the camps.
01:08They are hermetic people.
01:11They had taken everything from me in the concentration camps, everything.
01:14They had left me naked, they had left me totally defenseless.
01:18Not only because of rapes, but to leave me totally defenseless.
01:23Not a bracelet, not a chain, not a medal, not a small photograph.
01:26Naked, naked, totally defenseless.
01:28Now you have to think, of course, Enric didn't do that.
01:31We should have suspected, in quotation marks.
01:33Well, we didn't. He gave everything to us.
01:36He gave everything to the media.
01:38And maybe to the historians too.
01:40Besides, he explained what he wanted the media to know.
01:44It is very clear that a part of my life,
01:46a part of my life that I have not been able to cover,
01:48I have covered it with a lie,
01:50but it was part of this whole story,
01:53to give it more verisimilitude.
01:55Not out of curiosity, as an association,
01:58we are absolutely interested in why he got to where he got.
02:04La Mical doesn't have any interest, not now,
02:07not the next day, of the imposition of investigating why.
02:12Now it's up to him.
02:14I mean, if he wants to explain, let him explain.
02:17For us, this explanation can already be an object of curiosity,
02:21like other things in life, but we are not interested.
02:29In the first story of Enric Marco,
02:32before his imposition was discovered in 2005,
02:35he told that as a member of the Libertarian Youth,
02:38he tried, in 1941,
02:41to set up a resistance group against Francoism.
02:44But as they found out,
02:46he had to escape through the port of Barcelona,
02:48thanks to the help of a relative,
02:50who was theoretically a carabinier.
02:53This contact placed him as a policeman
02:56in a fruit boat to flee to Marseille.
02:59Marseille was the point where many of the Spanish refugees were.
03:04When arriving in Marseille,
03:06Enric is harassed by the phalanges of Petén,
03:09who send him first to the prison of Metz,
03:12and from Metz they send him back,
03:15and at the hands of the Gestapo,
03:17they send him to the prison of La Mical.
03:20In La Mical, Enric works in a semi-slavery regime
03:23in a shipyard dedicated to building torpedoes.
03:26There, theoretically, Enric begins,
03:29along with other comrades, to sabotage production.
03:32And as a reprisal, when he is arrested,
03:35he is sent to Flossenburg, a concentration camp,
03:38located very close to the Czech border.
03:41After the liberation,
03:43Enric is sent to a concentration camp,
03:46located very close to the Czech border.
03:49After the liberation, Enric returns to Spain
03:52to join the clandestinity.
04:00In the second trip, in the second story,
04:03after discovering his imposture,
04:06the story that Enric Marco makes of his passage through Germany
04:10differs from the previous one.
04:13He claims to have left from Barcelona to Marseille,
04:16but as his contacts fail him,
04:19he joins a battalion of volunteer workers for the Third Reich,
04:22and travels on a train to Metz,
04:25which is the point where his two trips cross.
04:28which is the point where his two trips cross.
04:31And from Metz, another train takes him to Kiel.
04:34There, he works in a shipyard,
04:37and is judged for making propaganda against Nazism.
04:40He spends a season in Kiel,
04:43until in 1943 he regains his freedom
04:46and returns to Barcelona to join the clandestinity.