El lacayo de Berlín, Bonn y Washington. La imagen de Franco en el cine documental alemán: El caso Unbändiges Spanien (España Indómita)
- Autores: Clara López Rubio, Wolfgang Martin Hamdorf
- Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 42-43, 2, 2002 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Materiales para una iconografía de Francisco Franco), págs. 100-117
- Idioma: español
- Títulos paralelos:
- The Lackey of Berlin, Bonn and Washington. Documentary film images of Franco: The case of Unbändiges Spanien (Kurt and Jeanne Stern, 1962)
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Resumen
Images of Franco are not commonly found in German film.
During the Nazi period the Spanish question was considered highly delicate, especially since German intervention in Spain’s Civil War was to be kept secret. Years later, Nazi participation of several German officers was to be kept under wraps and along with it their role in the Spanish conflict. In addition, in East Germany, the topic of Spain was also avoided. In spite of the fact that the Spanish Civil War formed a significant part of the great historical legends of “The First Worker and Peasant State,” it, along with other suppressions of the Republic such as the repression of the Anarchists and the Trotskyists, was ousted from official State discourse. In East German film, specifically in the documentary Unbändiges Spanien, Franco is portrayed as a part of the military stance that defends the old Spanish oligarchy, as a traitor to his country, and above all, as an eternal ally of reactionary forces—firstly Hitler and Mussolini, and later the United States. For East Germany, Franco represented an obstacle to change, progress, and social welfare. He survived the era of World War II due to support from West Germany and the imperialist interests of the United States.
