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Shattered Dreams of Anti-Fascist Unity: German Speaking Exiles in Mexico, Argentina and Bolivia, 1937-1945

Acle-Kreysing, Andrea 1,2
1 Fakultät für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (GEISTSOZ), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
2 Institut für Technikzukünfte (ITZ), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract (englisch):

Between the late 1930s and early 1940s Mexico City and Buenos Aires became the centres of activity for the two most relevant anti-fascist organisations of German-speaking exiles in Latin America: the communist-inspired Free German Movement (Bewegung Freies Deutschland; BFD) and the social-democratic oriented The Other Germany (Das Andere Deutschland; DAD). Both organisations envisaged the creation of an anti-fascist front within Latin America, one which would allow for greater unity of action, and thus carried out extensive congresses at Mexico City and Montevideo in 1943. Due to crucial ideological and tactical differences, this dream of anti-fascist unity led to a power struggle between BFD and DAD, well illustrated in the impact it had on Bolivia. This article seeks a new perspective on how, thanks to the establishment of transnational networks, a continental debate on the meaning and methods of anti-fascism then took place, while also shedding light on the influence the Latin American context had in shaping the exiles’ plans for a new Germany.


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DOI: 10.1017/S0960777316000436
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Technikzukünfte (ITZ)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2016
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 0960-7773, 1469-2171
KITopen-ID: 1000159643
Erschienen in Contemporary European history
Verlag Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Band 76
Heft 267
Seiten 573-609
Bemerkung zur Veröffentlichung https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/shattered-dreams-of-antifascist-unity-german-speaking-exiles-in-mexico-argentina-and-bolivia-19371945/0EEFDFED19DFB151259D1A9DF39A79B0#
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