The Contemporary Representation of Hunting Nazis and the Case of the Spanish Series "Jaguar"

Abstract

In the age of digital content, films and series that present a fragment of history play an important role in the formation of national and sometimes international historical memory. In most cases, these works tell us about historical events or characters about which the viewer has generally had less information until watching them. These works are recently or previously made films and series that are now available on streaming platforms. The aim of my article is to demonstrate how the hunt for Nazis is represented in current feature films and series, and to examine a specific Spanish case through the six-episode series Jaguar (Bambú Producciones, 2021), based on real events, which tells the story of a secret group that tries to capture Nazis who arrived in Spain during Franco's dictatorship.