Testimony of Enrique Aguado Marco, Interview with Carlos Elguero and Scott Boehm; August 3, 2007
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Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria Aguado Marco, Enrique Boehm, Scott Elguero, Carlos University of California, San Diego
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Aguado Marco, Enrique
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Enrique Aguado Marco nació en 1913. Enrique recuenta que combatió en la Batalla de Guadalajara y la Batalla de Ebro durante la Guerra Civil. Fue ascendido al rango de comisionario del batallón. Enrique explica que al finalizar la guerra, huyó a Francia y estuvo detenido en un campo de concentración. Después de ser liberado del campo de concentración, se quedó en Francia hasta 1973. Enrique relata su participación activa en el Partido Comunista de España (PCE) mientras estaba en Francia. Fue arrestado durante una visita a España en 1963 y estuvo preso en la cárcel de Carabanchel por varios meses. Enrique cuenta que fue un miembro activo del PCE durante la transición del régimen Franquista a la democracia y describe su participación en la campaña del partido durante las primeras elecciones democráticas. Enrique Aguado Marco was born on Feb. 2, 1913 in Molina de Aragón, province of Guadalajara. He gives an account of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, fighting with a Republican battalion in the Battle of Ebro and in other battles. He was appointed to head the commissary of his battalion, a position of considerable responsibility as he relates in the interview. He was active with the Communist Party in Spain, as well as during his exile in France. In addition to describing his own experiences, Aguado speculates on the the United States involvement in the Civil War, suggesting that Franco would never have won without oil and fuel supplied on installment from the United States Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship Interviews in Spanish Aguado Marco's testimony was recorded in his home in Madrid Aguado Marco, Enrique. Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship. University of California, San Diego, 2007 Madrid, Spain : Spanish Civil War Memory Project
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moving image
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2 video files : digital, sound, color
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ark:/20775/bb11955398
Language
Spanish
Subject
Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) Personal narratives-Spanish Exiles Nonfiction films History Communism Oral history Battle of the Ebro River (Spain : 1938) Interviews Partido Comunista de España France Spain
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