We can say that the “Civil War was a total war in which both sides used all their resources and they made use even of the last man” and with all the resources we include the media.
Both sides of the dispute were consious that lots of historical years were taking plunge in the battle field and that one idea will last at the end of the dispute.
In other words, the moderation was not posible beacuse “the right wing was not going to move even one centimetre from their traditional stance and the working class they had the feeling that, after centuries of explotation, they could not demand them to forget the past and be patient”. In fact, they reach a moment in the conflict in which “the only valid argument to continue the war was that a desperate war was better than getting tamely ready to confront the shooting squad”.
The propaganda
The propaganda was a discipline of the comunication that was characterize essentially , to look for “ the change or the acentuation of the ideas and the gained concepts by the people until potentially generate in them reactions of permanet stance, with which manipulate wishes and consciousness”.
In the beginning of the Civil War it was necessary to emphasize the defended idea above all.
The propaganda became the perfect mechanism for the broadcasting of ideas, with the unicque purpose of emphasize them.
Definitely, the propaganda was determined journalist report. You can like or hate its purpose, his objective, the way in which its made or how is communicated to the people, concious that it will be vulnerable but, in any case, is based in communicative stimuli, that you aquire the shade of journalistic in the momento in which they use the media for their aim.
SPANISH CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS
Gerda Taro
Gerda Taro travelled to Spain to know more about the conflict of the Spanish Civil War. She was a witness of different episodes of the war, he made research and after he published them in magazines such as Regards and Vu. Her most famous article was the first stage of the Battle of Brunete. She was a witness of the republican victory in the first stage of this battle. This article was published in Regards the 22nd of July 1937, and it gave Gerda great prestige.
However shortly after Franco's troops initiated a fierce counterattack, Gerda decided to return to the battlefront in Brunete. There Gerda witnessed savage aerial bombardment of the national side, and made many photographs, putting his life in danger. In that place thousands of Republicans were killed.
Gerda Taro was killed in an accident during the retreat of the Republican army. Gerda jumped on the running board of the car of General Walter (Member of the International Brigades). And in that moment, some enemy planes flying low spread the panic in the convoy and Gerda fell, after a small rise of ground. At that time a Republican tank came back down the road after jumping elevation that was Taro and fell on her.
The caterpillar tank gutted her, so she was urgently taken to the english hospital El Goloso De El Escorial. She died few hours later, on the morning of July 26, 1937, six days before his 27th birthday. His body was transferred to Paris, where she received full honors as a Republican heroine. Her remains are buried in division 97 of Père Lachaise, Paris 2.
