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Summaries in english

Lila Bujaldón de Esteves. "La Sociedad Goetheana Argentina con sede en
Mendoza. Parte I". (The Argentine Goethean Society located in Mendoza. Part I).
The Argentine Goethean Society, located in Mendoza, was founded in 1949 and
is still active today, identifying itself with the teaching of the German language
and the promotion of German Culture in this city. The aim of the present contri-
bution is to investigate and systematize the history of this association: its found-
ers, objectives, and trajectory through its almost 70 years of existences.

Germán Friedmann. "Los opositores a Hitler de habla alemana en Argentina.
Entre la amenaza nazi, el Deutschtum y la argentinidad". (Hitler's German-speak-
ing Opponents. Between the Nazi Threat, Germanness, and Argentine Identity).
Between the late 1930's and the early 1940's most quarrels in the Argentine
political media were interpreted through the lens of contemporary world conflict.
Discourses, worldviews, and the polarization driven by the Spanish Civil War and
especially by the Second World War, figured prominently in the Argentine politi-
cal arena.
Within this context an ample and varied supra-partisan alliance was formed,
with antifascism as a binding element. The "German wing" of this heterogeneous
movement was formed by German militants who opposed Hitler's government,
lived in Argentina, had diverse ideological backgrounds, and participated in mis-
cellaneous political and cultural activities.
This article focuses on the complex formation process of both the Argentine
and German identities that were expressed and constructed through those activ-
ities. To that end, it analyzes a series of tensions experienced by German-speak-
ing anti-Nazis both in their actions exposing an alleged Nazi infiltration
supposedly conspiring against Argentine nationality, and their activities in the
Pestalozzi school, which was driven by their need to create a social space for
those who had been expelled by the National Socialist government.
María Cecilia Gallero. "La inmigración suiza y la COMSO (1946-1963)". (Swiss
Immigration and the COMSO). The Comisión Social was an organization for social
aid among the Swiss immigrants in Misiones. It was created to advise and assist
those who had difficulties in the new land, because for many, the promised land
was transformed into a "green hell." In order to contextualize COSMO's actions,
the article begin with an account of the Swiss immigration process is drawn, briefly
explaining its stages. Next, it analyzes the scope and impact of the commission's
work among the Swiss settlers during its existence from 1946 to 1963.

Claudia Garnica de Bertona. "El Hospital Alemán en las novelas sobre Morath,
de Max René Hesse" (The German Hospital in the Novels on Morath, by Max
René Hesse). The German Hospital occupies a privileged place within the Ger-
man institutions of Argentina. Founded at the end of the 19th century, it has
become a reference point for the country. This is the scenario in which the writer
and doctor Max René Hesse sets his two novels about the country published in