Comments on: Interesting Spain Links

By: Edith

Edith — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:47:50 +0000

RE Nazi extermination of Spaniards during World War II: yes, I knew about it, there was a story about this in El País last year.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:39:00 +0000

@Kralizec – great and of course terrifying story. It’s hard to imagine how much harder life was then.

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:45:51 +0000

“Did you know that the Nazis exterminated thousands of Spaniards during World War Two?”

My grandfather’s brother ended up inside a nazi prisoner camp; he fled to France when the Spanish Civil War ended (he was an anarchist), and joined la résistance during the German occupation. Fortunately, he managed to survive until the end of the war, and was rescued by American soldiers.
But you know what? After defending France against the nazis, and after suffering for years in that camp, they didn’t want to give him the French nationality and intended to deport him back to Spain… So he fled again, to Switzerland.

By: ValenciaSon

ValenciaSon — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:46:19 +0000

I’ll trade syntax for seemingly unlimited content any day!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:56:17 +0000

With all this so called modern technology can someone explain why there are allways errors or spelling mistakes in the newpapers, magazines, and books? This rarely happened years ago . i guess that the publishers dont have spell check.

By: acosta

acosta — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:54:59 +0000

BTW Pardon my sarcasm in the first post.

By: Richardksa

Richardksa — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:44:35 +0000

Guttenberg invented the printing press (with movable type) to allow the disemination of news and information. It was hailed as a great step forward. Now we have the internet, which is Gutenberg to the power of infinity(!). So another step forward. Some people obviously think the Gutenberg’s idea is good enough! Talk about living in the past, poor souls.

By: Graham Tappenden

Graham Tappenden — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:59:20 +0000

Of course, he lived (and printed) just down the road from us…

… and by co-incidence, there will be a large biker camp there this spring: http://www.hubraum2009.de/

How about that for linking two NFS topics?

By: acosta

acosta — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:37:22 +0000

Newspapers, magazines??

Ain’t technology great,

BTW ever heard of that Gutenberg fellow, heard he had something useful for the world, then again perhaps not.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:09:39 +0000

Jon, your comments have been a tad snide of late, is it the weather?!