Today in
Social Sciences we have seen our exams about Alphonse XIII, Fascist Italy and
Nazi Germany. After that Paqui has said that we have to give her the 4º of ESO
book and if we want we can take the 3º ESO book for us. Today some classmates
have done the make-up exam because they failed the first one.
After that
Paqui has said that she is going to put us a video about 8 spanish survivors
that were confined in Mauthausen, a forced labour camp, not an extermination one,
in Austria. In this concentration camp there were 140,000 people, 7,000
spanish, and we the camp was destroyed only there were 2,100 survivors.
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In this
video we could see the experiences in this force labour camp of 8 spanish
people ( nowadays only 2 of the 8 men are still alive, they are Manuel Alfonso
and Ramón Milá, because the documentary was filmed more or less in 2000). This
8 men told some experiences (good and bad ones) about their time there. Some
interesting things that impressed me were the photos, and when one of the men
said that he lived near the electric fence, and he could listen to the
electricity passing along the fence, and he said “is the death that is passing”.
This people received only 1,000 calories and the normal rate for a person
during a day is 3,000 calories. They ate for example turnips potatoes, slice of
bread, sausage… The people in Mauthausen had to wake up very early and they
went to a granite quarry to work there. Some people died there because of their
tiredness, and other ones for example were killed by throwing them from a
cliff. The people from the video also talk about their clothes. In this clothes
they have an special symbol to recognized them, for example the Spanish ones
had an S inside a triangle, that means in German “Rot Spanier”, that in English
means “Red Spanish”.
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Near the
Mauthausen camp there was the Gusen, this was a Kommando were they took the
people to kill them. In this camp they received only half of food, and they
didn’t have any clothes.
In Hartheim Castle there were the gas chamber, but they use a lot the crematorium.
One thing
that had shocked me was that one of these men, Joan de Diego had only 4 fingers
in one hand!
All this
things were horrible! I like the documentary because you learn a lot, but is
too sad and shocking for me… I also like the aria of Puccini's Tosca: E lucevan le stelle, ( one of my favourite) that appeared in this video.
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Then the
bell rang and Paqui said that if we like this documentary, and she has
collected the make-up exams.
We have
learned one new word: to broadcast- emitir.
Sorry for the delay, but that's musicians life!
Bye bye
Hello Enrique,
ReplyDeleteThese are my corrections:
- We can keep the 3º ESO book.
- 140,000 prisoners died at Mauthausen. There were more prisoners there.
- "Spanish" in capital letters.
- When the camp was released....It was not destroyed. It still exist and can be visited.
- Forced labour.
- The calories a worker in the quarry needed were 3,000, but they only received around 1,000.
- In these clothes they had a special symbol to recognize them.
- Near Mauthausen there was another camp called Gusen.
- In Hartheim Castle... they used a lot the crematorium. Remember the smell to roasted meat the prisoners told about.
- All these things were...
- I also liked "E Lucevane stelle", Puccini´s aria on "Tosca".
- Paqui has said if we liked this documentary
That´s all. I hope you correct the mistakes.