The Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduyattended this Sunday in the former Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausenin Austria, to pay tribute to the 9,300 Spanish victims who suffered in Nazi camps.

Of them, almost 7,000 were imprisoned in this complex Austrian prison, which includes the Gusen subcamp. Like every year, this tribute has been carried out coinciding with the anniversary of the liberation of this camp, an anniversary of which this year 2024 marks 79 years.

On behalf of the Government of Spain, in addition to Pablo Bustinduy, Fernando Martínez, Secretary of State for Democratic Memory and Angel Victor TorresMinister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, who has asked the PP for dialogue to change the memory laws of the communities in which it governs with Vox, and? The UN warns that human rights are violated.

Minister Bustinduy participated in this tribute event with a brief speech in which has claimed “the duty of memory” of the current generations, and especially the leaders, to promote the memory of the victims of Nazism and Francoism, while calling for work “on guarantees of non-repetition” so that Nazism and fascism cannot return to Europe.

On the other hand, he recalled that the fight of these men and women against fascism “opened the way to a new idea of ​​Europe.” “In that Europe, destroyed by war and marked by suffering, a path was opened towards a common space, built from freedom and reason. That is the origin of the European Union, an alliance of countries with the conviction of need to protect democracy and human rights, who understood that his strength lay in solidarity and mutual cooperation,” he said.

From Mauthausen, Pablo Bustinduy He has had words of remembrance for the Spanish men and women who were victims of this and other Nazi camps. “I come to pay tribute to those murdered here and to those who suffered the atrocity of these camps. Many of them were Spanish republicans who ended up in French camps after going into exile. They fought against Franco and Hitler, and were forgotten by our country and by the European democracies when they did not come to rescue Spain from Franco’s dictatorship,” said the minister, recalling that more than 5,000 Spaniards were murdered in Nazi camps while being designated as “stateless”.

The minister Bustinduy has also participated in acts of tribute and commemoration of the Jewish and Gypsy victims who suffered this Mauthausen prison complex, and its political prisoners of various nationalities. “They will never be forgotten again. “We must work to integrate his memory into the fabric of our collective conscience, promoting reflection as a country that results in an unwavering commitment to freedom, solidarity and the fight against all forms of discrimination and intolerance,” he said.

Finally, he criticized the laws of “false concord” of the PP and Vox, and has expressed his support for both the victims of Francoism and Nazism, and their families. “They call it concord, but what they propose is to recover amnesia or, what is worse, the memory of the dictatorship. There is no need for false conciliation between murderers and executioners. Between executioners and victims the only thing that should mediate is justice, truth and reparation,” he noted.