El último brigadista

P Guerrerobernabeu

Delmer Berg, el último brigadista del Batallón Lincoln. Estadounidense de 99 años, cruzó los Pirineos a pie en 1938 para unirse al frente republicano de la Guerra Civil. Había crecido en una "familia de granjeros pobres" y la reforma agraria republicana había despertado su simpatía: "Me gustaba la idea de ayudar a España"  Publication:2015-03-17T00:59:42.000Z

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00:00I was already a Spaniard.

00:07The reason I went to Spain,

00:10it was not because I liked to do something great,

00:15but I liked the idea of helping the Spanish people.

00:19I think it's an example, for me at least,

00:22the maximum of responsibility and of freedom,

00:25because these individuals,

00:27they voluntarily decide to travel to another continent

00:33and put their lives in risk for their ideals.

00:36There was a broad movement in the country,

00:40and all over the world,

00:43to aid the Spanish people

00:46and fight fascism in Spain.

00:49And I think little by little I just became a part

00:56became a part of it.

00:58It became a part of my life.

01:00A person who, despite their age,

01:0299 years old, 98,

01:0598, 99,

01:07still has great ideals,

01:09still preoccupying the world,

01:11still reading,

01:12still trying to reach young people,

01:15share a message.

01:17He's a humanist.

01:21We crossed the Pyrenees,

01:36to the Spanish border,

01:39and they sent us to that big fortress in Barcelona.

01:45I don't remember the name.

01:47They sent us to that big fortress in Barcelona.

02:02I don't remember the name.

02:05They took him to give him breakfast,

02:08and the first thing he told me

02:10was, I remember perfectly

02:11that it had been a breakfast.

02:12He told me,

02:13coffee and rolls, coffee and rolls,

02:15coffee and rolls,

02:16the typical Spanish breakfast of coffee and bread.

02:19With my political activity,

02:21once I came back to Los Angeles,

02:24I began to be involved with the Young Communist League.

02:30Muchos de ellos se cambiaron el nombre,

02:32también,

02:33para que no pudieran ser perseguidos,

02:36y realmente el FBI llevó a cabo,

02:38bueno, una vigilancia extremada.

02:42When the McCarthyites began to harass

02:46all left-wingers,

02:49especially the Communist Party members,

02:52they ran around,

02:55talking to everybody that I knew,

02:58that I worked for,

03:00and say,

03:01oh, we're looking for that SOB.

03:04He's a rat.

03:05He's a traitor to our country

03:08and all that crap,

03:09you know,

03:10McCarthyism.

03:11And,

03:12so,

03:14we were the ones

03:16that laid the lines to

03:18the blowing up of the bridge

03:22in the April.

03:28So,

03:29when

03:30Hemingway,

03:31in his movie,

03:32talks about blowing up the bridge,

03:35he didn't know what he was talking about.

03:38Us guys, too,

03:39we did it!

03:40We did it!

03:42Viva la quinta brigada,

03:44rumba la, rumba la, rumba la,

03:46viva la quinta brigada,

03:48rumba la, rumba la, rumba la,

03:50rumba la,

04:02Que sa alcuz kia cnia cnia cnia cnia,

04:05ai, rumba la, rumba la quinta brigada.

04:13Defence affections

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