Germanity and war culture: Germania magazine’s representations of German militarism in Argentina during the Great War

Abstract

This article is part of a larger project aimed at investigating the representations of the German-speaking community in the context of the Great War as expressed in the magazine Germania. The magazine was published from June 1915 to May 1916, a period in which, although the war had come to a standstill on the western front, Allied and Germanophile propaganda began to recover prominence in the local press in the face of the stagnation of news coverage of the war. Its pages exposed a clear example of community mobilization and proposed to spread through war notes, literary, scientific and recreational articles, an alternative version of the events and German culture, under the pressure of the Allied propaganda that controlled the distribution of foreign news in Argentina. On this occasion, we will analyze how the representations that disputed values allusive to nationality and love for the fatherland associated with German militarism were expressed and how this was represented to counteract the arguments of the enemies.