Spain, The Second World War, And The Holocaust: History And Representation

Cover......Page 0
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
Prologue: Jews and Spaniards at Meeting Points of Their Histories during the Nazi Era......Page 42
Part One: Legacies of Antisemitism in Spain......Page 62
1 Hero and Monster: The Place of Jews in Spain’s National Identity......Page 64
2 Antisemitism and Philosephardism in Spain, 1880–1945......Page 80
Part Two: Spain and the Fates of Jewish Communities......Page 96
3 Spain and the Jews during the Holocaust......Page 98
4 The Franco Regime and the Jews of North Africa during the Second World War......Page 115
5 Spain, Refuge for Jews Fleeing Nazism during the Second World War......Page 130
6 Routes of the Renowned and the Nameless: Clandestine Border-Crossing at the Pyrenees, 1939–1945......Page 140
7 Spanish Jews in Bergen-Belsen Camp, 1943–1944: Primary Evidence of Spanish Diplomacy......Page 153
8 Beyond Duty: The Spanish Foreign Service’s Humanitarian Response to the Holocaust......Page 168
Part Three: Spanish Exiles in France......Page 198
9 Spanish Republicans Exiled in France during the Second World War: War and Resistance......Page 200
10 From Internees to Liberators: Spanish Republican Exiles in France, 1939–1945......Page 214
11 The Stateless Monument: Memory of the Spanish Republicans Who Died in Mauthausen......Page 229
Part Four: Spanish Republicans in Nazi Camps......Page 250
12 Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück......Page 252
13 Between Compiègne and Neuengamme: Testimony and Trauma of Spanish Prisoners in German Concentration Camps......Page 273
14 Spain’s Mauthausen: Narratives of the Nazi Deportation of Spanish Republicans, 1946–2018......Page 287
15. Joaquim Amat-Piniella’s Novel K.L. Reich: The Gaze of the Political Deportee......Page 306
16 Jorge Semprún and the Holocaust......Page 316
17 Montserrat Roig and Her Contribution to the Memory of the Republican Deportation......Page 328
Part Five: Propaganda......Page 342
18 Francoist Antisemitic Propaganda, 1939–1945......Page 344
19 The Catholic Church and the Jews in Franco’s Spain during the Holocaust, 1939–1945......Page 368
20 The Politics of Survival: Madrid’s Pro-Jewish Propaganda and the Canonization of Francisco Franco as Benefactor of Jews......Page 388
21 Tainted Visions of War: Antisemitic German Propaganda in Spain......Page 404
22 A Touch of Nazi Sophistication: The Promotion of Spanish Culture in Wartime Germany......Page 418
Part Six: The Blue Division......Page 436
23 The Blue Division and the National Question in the Occupied Territory of Russia, 1941–1943......Page 438
24 Representations of the Blue Division in Memoir and Fiction......Page 459
Part Seven: Nazis in Spain......Page 482
25 Spain’s Neutral Holocaust: Memories of the Axis Alliance in Francoist and Post-Franco Spain, or “The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Otto Skorzeny”......Page 484
26 Nazis, Real and Imagined, in Post-Second-World-War Spain......Page 498
Part Eight: The Holocaust in Contemporary Spanish and Ladino Culture......Page 516
27 Memory and the Ethical Imagination: The Holocaust and Deportation to Mauthausen in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Theatre......Page 518
28 Audiovisual Production on the Republican Deportation and Spain as Haven of the Nazis......Page 534
29 With Sepharad as a Void: Recent Reckoning with the Holocaust in Spanish Fiction......Page 551
30 “Only Writing Matters”: Anne Frank in/and Spanish Holocaust Poetry, 1966–2004......Page 567
31 The Words That Replace the Elusive Past: Some Recent Ladino Poetic Responses to the Holocaust......Page 582
32 Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust in Spain......Page 601
Part Nine: Afterlives: Holocaust Appropriations in Spain......Page 616
33 Between “No Pasarán” and “Nunca Más”: The Holocaust and the Revisiting of Spain’s Legacy of Mass Violence......Page 618
Bibliography......Page 636
Contributors......Page 680
Index......Page 688