I chose this work­camp because I am very inte­res­ted in this period of history. I didn’t meet any­body yet who were in a con­cen­tra­tion camp, so before I get to know one, I couldn‘t image this awful part of the history. Spain didn‘t par­ti­ci­pate in the Second World War because it had ano­ther war before. This is the rea­son I only know it from books and arti­cles. Spain suf­fe­red a dif­fi­cult period too with Franco but a lot of old people don‘t think it was a bad time. I‘m con­fu­sed because my grand­mo­ther thinks that Franco was a good per­son but I lear­ned he was a dic­ta­tor and Spain didn‘t have free­dom while he gover­ned. Nowa­days in my coun­try we don‘t have anti­se­mi­tic pro­blems with jewish people but we have it with isla­mistic people and also black people. A lot of people think that they are not allo­wed to be in Spain only because they have a dif­fe­rent reli­gion or a dif­fe­rent skin colour. They are con­fu­sed, of course, but some­ti­mes the neo­na­zis pur­sue them and hit them. In Spain it is dif­fi­cult to find a work and many people think that this is because the immi­grants stole Spa­nish jobs. The expe­ri­ence taking part in this camp will help me to meet people rela­tio­ned with the con­cen­tra­tion camps and with the nazi period.

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