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It is said that a Republican soldier
searching the area found him,
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that the two looked at each other,
:10:08
and then another
Republican soldier called out,
:10:11
'Is he there? '
:10:12
Without taking his eyes off
Sánchez Mazas, the man called back,
:10:17
'There's no one here.'
:10:18
Then he turned around
and walked away.
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We shall never know who it was
that saved Sánchez Mazas' life
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or what went through
his mind at that moment.
:10:29
Or what José
and Manuel Machado said
:10:32
in front of their mother's
and brother's graves.
:10:35
In both may lie
some essential secret
:10:38
of the Spanish Civil War."
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"How dare you compare the great
poet Machado with a fascist writer
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like Sánchez Mazas?"
:11:32
"Another article about 'national
reconciliation'? Go to hell."
:11:45
"Sánchez Mazas wasn't the only one
to survive the firing squad
:11:48
at the Collell.
:11:49
A man named Pascual also escaped
and later wrote a book about it.
:11:53
It's out of print
but I can get you a copy.