In August 1944, 37 Allied intelligence officers entered the Buchenwald concentration camp. They were destined to be executed, but three of them, with the complicity of the well-organized underground resistance within the camp, managed to escape by hiding among the sick on whom the Nazis were conducting experiments to find a vaccine against typhus. Frenchman Grégory Cingal, born in 1971, explores the story of these three men in the novel Les derniers sur la liste (The last on the list (in the Spanish edition by Tusquets, translated by Patricia Orts). The writer, who is also an archivist and translator, not only describes their adventure, their dilemmas, and the fate they met after leaving the camp, but also describes, in great detail, life and power struggles in a world of terror.

This year 2025, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi campsThe anniversary of the end of the Second World War and, with it, the end of one of the cruelest episodes in human history. The dehumanization and the planned, industrial murder of millions of people in the concentration and extermination camps of the Third Reich. An event that has since unhinged humanity's conscience, called into question its very essence, and, as Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, aptly put it, "after Auschwitz, the world was never the same again."

Margot Friedländer is 103 years old and one of the few Holocaust survivors still able to offer her testimony. This Friday, she received recognition for all the work she has done to explain what that hell was like, especially in schools. "I'm not speaking only for the six million innocent people murdered, but for all the people who have been murdered because they have not been respected as human beings," she said at the Westphalian Peace Conference. Today, Sunday, at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of BuchenwaldFormer German President Christian Wulff recalled that Friedländer, during his weekly visits, warned that things are not very different today from the Germany that voted for Hitler. "When Margot Friedländer says this is how it all began, we should be concerned," Wulff asserted.