Indoctrinating with words: the press and the National Socialist propaganda in the Canary Islands during Spanish Civil War

Abstract

The strategic position of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the insular territory in the Atlantic with the Canary archipelago, turned Spain into one of the main targets for the Nazi propaganda abroad. Although it is true that studies on the National Socialist propaganda have been a well-inquired topic, what has not been so frequent is the analysis of how this propaganda was integrated into the Canary Islands press during the Spanish Civil War.  Who the protagonists were, what links they had with the NSDAP, and what action spaces they implemented so that their ideology was reflected in the press. The aim of this article is to identify some of the main editorial lines that the Spanish press, developed as a means of propaganda and indoctrination of the National Socialism.