The Nazi Mirror of Opinion: Spanish Media Perception of the Third Reich, 1930-1936

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  • March 22, 2019
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  • Negy, Kenneth
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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  • This thesis examines Spanish perceptions of German fascism from 1930, shortly before the establishment of the Spanish Second Republic, until the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Specifically, it focuses on the reporting of events related to Nazism and Germany in ABC, El Socialista, El Fascio, F.E., and Arriba as a way to gauge the trajectory and character of the Spanish relationship with fascism. The portrayals and analyses of German affairs published in these newspapers in turn reflected the instability of the political situation in Spain prior to the Civil War and the impact of Spanish culture on its perception of Germany. This thesis contends that the German variant of fascism served simultaneously as a threat and warning for the far-left, an inspirational source for national rebirth for the center-right, and a possible model for the formation of a Spanish version of fascism for the far-right. However, despite the increasing international attention on Nazi Germany, events such as the assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg revealed the limits of Spanish conservative enthusiasm for Nazism and its preference for more traditionally authoritarian figures. Overall, this study places the Second Republic into the broader narrative of both the transnational spread of fascism and the European context of the fragility of interwar democracy.
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  • Jarausch, Konrad Hugo
  • Kramer, Lloyd
  • Hof, Tobias
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  • Master of Arts
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
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  • 2018
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