Spain and the Holocaust
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2008 · Education
Maureen Tobin Stanley, associate professor of Spanish language, literature, and culture at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, spoke at Vanderbilt University Oct. 23 as part of the Holocaust Lecture Series. Maureen Tobin Stanley has spent her career examining Spanish voices of resistance, exile and deportation. Though 10,000 to 15,000 Spaniards were imprisoned in Nazi camps with the implicit endorsement of Francisco Franco's regime, their experience in concentration camps has been largely suppressed. As part of contemporary Spain's critical, literary, and current legislative drive to recover its democratic past and renounce Franco's totalitarianism, Stanley's research seeks to demonstrate the cultural relevance of these frightening realities. Supporting contribution by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
