Last Spanish anti-fascist survivor of Nazi concentration camp dies aged 101

Juan Romero was among 7,500 compatriots imprisoned at Mauthausen camp in Austria

The last survivor of 7,500 Spaniards who were sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria has died at the age of 101, just weeks after his heroic anti-fascism efforts were finally recognised by his homeland.

Juan Romero, who was born in Cordoba in 1919, was a teenager when the Spanish civil war broke out and went on to fight for the republicans in some of the bloodiest battles of the conflict, including the Battle of the Ebro, where he was wounded.