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A TIME OF WARS AND COMMON TOTALITARIAN PROJECTS: THE LINKS BETWEEN NAZI GERMANY AND FRANCOIST SPAIN, THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF A TRADITIONAL SPANISH CITY (VITORIA, 1936-1944) ——o> — GUILLERMO MARIN ABSTRACT Between 1936 and 1944, and in a European context of significant political violence and ideological effervescence, Nazi Germany was very present in everyday life in Spain. This presence was military, both during the Spanish Civil War and in later years. It was also a propaganda presence, through which it tried to foster a feeling of sympathy towards Germany, as opposed to the “great enemies of Spain”, such as Bolshevism. One of the most interesting variants of this propaganda was the attempt to create a new sense of identity which, respecting local and national peculiarities, projected, between the years 1940 and 1942, the idea of a totalitarian Europe, which would be led by Germany, and in which “friendly” countries such as Spain would have to work hard to fit in. This paper notes the importance and intensity of this propaganda work, and explores the effectiveness, in the social code, that these activities had in the daily life of a small Spanish city: Vitoria. Likewise, it is an initial approach to a subject very little explored by historiography, the scope of which can hopefully be expanded in the future, with new approaches both from the Spanish orbit and at a European / international level. Keywords: local history, francoism, Nazism, fascism, propaganda +9] +
