Katalanismus und Faschismus: zur Interpretation eines katalanistischen Memorandums an das nationalsozialistische Deutschland

Abstract

International fascism has been, during the interwar period, a model that also influenced the development of many "peripheral" nationalist movements. In the Catalan case, on the one hand, there was an approach of intellectualizing nuclei of Catalanism to the most avant-garde postulates of fascism, and on the other hand an approximation of a group of parties such as the Catalan League and Action with the politicians of German national minorities of the 1920s. During the Second Republic, a fraction of the radical nationalist current continued to play with the possibility of obtaining foreign aid from the fascist powers, which led them to present a detailed project of collaboration with in the Third Reich in 1935 and again in May 1936. Despite not being taken into account by Nazi diplomacy, leading figure Batista i Roca made a few more attempts in September 1936, which did not succeed either.