26. Nazis, Real and Imagined, in Post-Second-World-War Spain

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Prologue: Jews and Spaniards at Meeting Points of Their Histories during the Nazi Era 27
7. Part One: Legacies of Antisemitism in Spain
8. 1. Hero and Monster: The Place of Jews in Spain’s National Identity 49
9. 2. Antisemitism and Philosephardism in Spain, 1880–1945 65
10. Part Two: Spain and the Fates of Jewish Communities
11. 3. Spain and the Jews during the Holocaust 83
12. 4. The Franco Regime and the Jews of North Africa during the Second World War 100
13. 5. Spain, Refuge for Jews Fleeing Nazism during the Second World War 115
14. 6. Routes of the Renowned and the Nameless: Clandestine Border-Crossing at the Pyrenees, 1939–1945 125
15. 7. Spanish Jews in Bergen-Belsen Camp, 1943–1944: Primary Evidence of Spanish Diplomacy 138
16. 8. Beyond Duty: The Spanish Foreign Service’s Humanitarian Response to the Holocaust 153
17. Part Three: Spanish Exiles in France
18. 9. Spanish Republicans Exiled in France during the Second World War: War and Resistance 185
19. 10. From Internees to Liberators: Spanish Republican Exiles in France, 1939–1945 199
20. 11. The Stateless Monument: Memory of the Spanish Republicans Who Died in Mauthausen 214
21. Part Four: Spanish Republicans in Nazi Camps
22. 12. Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück 237
23. 13. Between Compiègne and Neuengamme: Testimony and Trauma of Spanish Prisoners in German Concentration Camps 258
24. 14. Spain’s Mauthausen: Narratives of the Nazi Deportation of Spanish Republicans, 1946–2018 272
25. 15. Joaquim Amat-Piniella’s Novel K.L. Reich: The Gaze of the Political Deportee 291
26. 16. Jorge Semprún and the Holocaust 301
27. 17. Montserrat Roig and Her Contribution to the Memory of the Republican Deportation 313
28. Part Five: Propaganda
29. 18. Francoist Antisemitic Propaganda, 1939–1945 329
30. 19. The Catholic Church and the Jews in Franco’s Spain during the Holocaust, 1939–1945 353
31. 20. The Politics of Survival: Madrid’s Pro-Jewish Propaganda and the Canonization of Francisco Franco as Benefactor of Jews 373
32. 21. Tainted Visions of War: Antisemitic German Propaganda in Spain 389
33. 22. A Touch of Nazi Sophistication: The Promotion of Spanish Culture in Wartime Germany 403
34. Part Six: The Blue Division
35. 23. The Blue Division and the National Question in the Occupied Territory of Russia, 1941–1943 423
36. 24. Representations of the Blue Division in Memoir and Fiction 444
37. Part Seven: Nazis in Spain
38. 25. Spain’s Neutral Holocaust: Memories of the Axis Alliance in Francoist and Post-Franco Spain, or “The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Otto Skorzeny” 469
39. 26. Nazis, Real and Imagined, in Post-Second-World-War Spain 483
40. Part Eight: The Holocaust in Contemporary Spanish and Ladino Culture
41. 27. Memory and the Ethical Imagination: The Holocaust and Deportation to Mauthausen in Twenty-First- Century Spanish Theatre 503
42. 28. Audiovisual Production on the Republican Deportation and Spain as Haven of the Nazis 519
43. 29. With Sepharad as a Void: Recent Reckoning with the Holocaust in Spanish Fiction 536
44. 30. “Only Writing Matters”: Anne Frank in/and Spanish Holocaust Poetry, 1966–2004 552
45. 31. The Words That Replace the Elusive Past: Some Recent Ladino Poetic Responses to the Holocaust 567
46. 32. Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust in Spain 586
47. Part Nine: Afterlives: Holocaust Appropriations in Spain
48. 33. Between “No Pasarán” and “Nunca Más”: The Holocaust and the Revisiting of Spain’s Legacy of Mass Violence 603
49. Bibliography 621
50. Contributors 665
51. Index 673
52. TORONTO IBERIC 713