Looking for the Hidden Enemy: Intellectuals and Anti-Nazi Magazines in Uruguay During the Second World War

Abstract

This article examines a set of Uruguayan magazines first published as a local response to the dangers of German National Socialist progress during the Second World War. Starting from plot theory as a world fiction in force at the time (Louis 2007) and the debates of the national political context, it analyzes the representation and uses of the Nazi threat that these publications exhibit. The work highlights the ways in which these magazines collaborated with the hybridization of the imaginary of Nazism and the dissemination of a narrative of fear and suspicion. Moreover, the study of these “anti-Nazi” publications allows us to shed light on individual intellectual paths and sketch the continuity of a network of Uruguayan anti-fascist writers forged during the 1930s under the experience of Terra’s dictatorship and the adherence to the cause of Republican Spain.