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These essays will always be free, but you can continue to support my work by liking and commenting, and most of all by passing the essays on to others, and passing the links to other sites that you frequent. If you would like to take out a paid subscription I won’t stand in your way, (I’d be very honoured in fact) but I can’t promise you anything in return except a warm feeling of virtue. A special thank-you to those who have taken out paid subscriptions recently.I have also set up a Buy Me A Coffee page, which you can find here.☕️ Thanks to all of those who have recently contributed.And as always, thanks to others who tirelessly supply translation in their languages. Maria José Tormo is posting Spanish translations on her site here, and Marco Zeloni is also posting Italian translations on a site here, and Italia e il Mondo is posting them here. I am always grateful to those who post occasional translations and summaries into other languages just as long as you credit the original and let me know. And now:****************************************In 1943, Jorge Semprùn, a Spanish exile in France, was arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp for his Resistance activities. Semprùn, scarcely twenty at the time, would have been executed immediately, but his life was saved because he had joined the (illegal) Spanish Communist Party the year before, and subsequently the FTP-MOI, the clandestine Resistance organisation largely recruited from foreigners, and organised by the French Communist Party. The concentration camp, like many in Germany, was effectively administered b…