La desorientació de la premsa espanyola davant la caiguda de Mussolini

Abstract

The Spanish press, docile instrument of Francoism, fully refl ects —between 1942 and 1945— all the embarrassment of a regime that loses, with the collapse of Fascism, its great political reference. The confusion of newspapers facing the Italian military and political catastrophe, after years of praising Mussolini’s system, expresses itself in often contradictory reports and articles: important events such as the dismissal of the Duce and the formation of Badoglio’s Government, the armistice and the creation of the Social Republic, are objects of radically different analysis. Thereby, we can notice an absolutely original aspect of the press in these years: its lack of uniformity, even in the framework of a general evolution of its judgment about Fascist experience.