A-Infos (en) France, Socialisme-Libertaire: August 20, 1944: Three Comrades Fallen to Fascist Bullets (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

"Three anarchists killed in the maquis. Victims of German bullets in 
France. ---- Three lives cut short in the prime of youth, just as the 
age of understanding was beginning to dawn. Because when you turn 
thirty, you begin to see things and understand them with more judgment, 
and when you carry out an act, you know why you're doing it. --- The 
oldest of them was Aguado, a man who had belonged to the movement[the 
CNT-AIT]and the specific[the FAI]since he was a child. He was the true 
anarchist. He only took what he needed for the day; anything else was 
superfluous. And if he had something to eat, he had to share it with 
someone who had none, and he did so with a thousand kindness." For him, 
there were no deprivations, only needs. The sadness of a life cut short!

The other comrade was García. A comrade steeped in the ideas and the 
Movement. He had been the secretary of the youth in the Valencia region 
of Spain. This meant he knew those libertarian young men, aged 31 to 39, 
who fought so hard for the cause that the people in general had 
embraced. That was his youth.

As for Mombiola, the youngest of them, he was the epitome of the true 
self-taught man, the genuinely cultured man, endowed with a clear 
intellect. A man of letters as well as a fighter. One who spread ideas 
by example. The true comrade. I remember that during the war, they 
wanted to appoint him commander of a battalion in the Durruti Column. He 
replied: "I don't want to command anyone, I want to be a soldier and 
nothing else."

He truly didn't want it. Because he was against militarization. He loved 
being what he was: a militiaman in the revolutionary movement. A 
movement that had grown so much among the Spanish people, defending the 
cause of the workers themselves. Neither superior nor inferior. Neither 
rich nor poor. Mombiola wanted to be a soldier in this social 
transformation. But not in an army of soldiers.

And to avoid becoming militarized, he joined a group of dynamiters. And 
after the loss of Aragon, he joined the Confederate battalion until our 
entry into France in 1939. There, after countless hardships, he joined 
the maquis, where he gave his life, like his other comrades. And so many 
others who sacrificed theirs, in France as in Spain.

In their memory, I write these lines, which prove that those of us who 
knew and loved them cannot forget them.»

Maria MOMBIOLA, in Espoir CNT-AIT, no. 394, August 3, 1969

SOURCE: CNT-AIT - Toulouse | Anarcho-syndicalism

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