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title: '''A Grã-Bretanha, Defensora da Liberdade'' (British poster in Portuguese)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/britain-defender-of-liberty-portuguese-1942/
description: A painted view from above shows an RAF twin-engined aircraft and others over the government-offices quarter of Berlin, with bombs falling among buildings…
section: Collection
---

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# 'A Grã-Bretanha, Defensora da Liberdade' (British poster in Portuguese)

A painted view from above shows an RAF twin-engined aircraft and others over the government-offices quarter of Berlin, with bombs falling among buildings flying swastika flags. The Portuguese headline, 'Great Britain, Defender of Freedom', puts a virtue word over the picture of a bombing raid and carries the whole argument.

- **Date:** 1942
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** British Embassy Press and Information Services (Serviços de Imprensa e Informação da Embaixada Britânica); artist Jobson
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [United Kingdom](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-kingdom)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Churchill Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=churchill-government)
- **Leader:** [Winston Churchill](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=winston-churchill)
- **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Google Arts & Culture image of a copy in the Museu do Caramulo)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Gr%C3%A3-Bretanha,_Defensora_da_Liberdade_-_British_World_War_II_poster_in_Portuguese.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (UK Government work, Crown copyright expired; PD-UK-Gov per Wikimedia Commons) British Embassy Press and Information Services; artist Jobson, c. 1942-1945. Museu do Caramulo via Google Arts & Culture, and Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

Original (Portuguese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Aviões da R.A.F. a voarem de dia sobre o bairro das repartições oficiais de Berlim.

A GRÃ-BRETANHA
DEFENSORA DA LIBERDADE

SERVIÇOS DE IMPRENSA E INFORMAÇÃO DA EMBAIXADA BRITÂNICA

[signature in the painting:] JOBSON
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
R.A.F. aircraft flying by day over the government-offices district of Berlin.

GREAT BRITAIN
DEFENDER OF FREEDOM

PRESS AND INFORMATION SERVICES OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY

[signature in the painting:] JOBSON
```

[← Belajarlah! Pakailah! Bahasa Nippon! (Learn! Use! The Japanese Language!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/belajarlah-pakailah-bahasa-nippon-1942/) ['BUT if you continue to resist...' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/but-leaflet-australian-troops-1942/)

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