Vivir el conflicto lejos de los campos de batalla. La comunidad alemana del Perú y la Primera Guerra Mundial

Abstract

Commemorated in 2014, the Centenary of the First World War represented an opportunity to renew traditional historical studies of the Great War by developing an analysis of the conflict from new spaces and with new questions. From that perspective, this paper studies the mobilization of the German community of Peru during the First World War based on two German-Peruvian publications: La Guerra Gráfica and Germania. In a country that was clearly pro-Allies, an analysis of the representations created by the German community of Peru is an invitation to interrogate the notions of mobilization and of the culture of war during a conflict that was both close and distant at the same time for these European migrants.

Keywords

• Peru
• press
• World War I
• German community
• mobilization
• propaganda