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title: 'El Diario Vasco, front page (San Sebastián, 14 September 1936): "El glorioso Ejército español ... libertan San Sebastián"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/el-diario-vasco-san-sebastian-1936/
description: Front page the day after Nationalist columns entered San Sebastián. Under the banner "¡ARRIBA ESPAÑA! - ¡VIVA ESPAÑA!", the headline says the army, the…
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Nationalist-zone front page from the first day after the capture of San Sebastián, calling its opponents 'hordes of red bandits and murderers' and celebrating the arrival of the columns; shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# El Diario Vasco, front page (San Sebastián, 14 September 1936): "El glorioso Ejército español ... libertan San Sebastián"

Front page the day after Nationalist columns entered San Sebastián. Under the banner "¡ARRIBA ESPAÑA! - ¡VIVA ESPAÑA!", the headline says the army, the Navarrese requetés and the fascist militias "free" the city from the "horrendous tyranny" of two months under "hordes of red bandits and murderers"; the deck claims "delirious enthusiasm" from the townspeople. The tell: a collective label and a crowd-mood claim stand in for an account of events, while a box on the page warns that no official news service yet exists.

## Text on the object

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

```
EL DIARIO VASCO
Año III
Calle de Garibay, 34
LUNES, 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1936
SAN SEBASTIAN

¡ARRIBA ESPAÑA! - ¡VIVA ESPAÑA!

El glorioso Ejército español, los bravos requetés navarros y las milicias fascistas libertan San Sebastián de la horrenda tiranía a que durante dos meses le habían sometido las hordas de bandidos y asesinos rojos

han entrado triunfalmente las columnas, siendo acogidas con entusiasmo delirante por el pueblo donostiarra.-La espantosa pesadilla ha terminado.-La bandera roja y gualda ondea en todos los edificios oficiales
```

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

```
THE BASQUE DAILY
Year III
Garibay Street, 34
MONDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 1936
SAN SEBASTIAN

UP SPAIN! - LONG LIVE SPAIN!

The glorious Spanish Army, the brave Navarrese requetés and the fascist militias free San Sebastián from the horrendous tyranny to which the hordes of red bandits and murderers had subjected it for two months

the columns have entered triumphantly, welcomed with delirious enthusiasm by the people of San Sebastián.-The dreadful nightmare is over.-The red and yellow flag flies on all the official buildings
```

Masthead, banner, headline and deck read from the 1280 px image; the issue number and the body columns are not transcribed. 'Red and yellow' is the Spanish national colours (rojigualda). Translation is literal and not checked by a fluent reader.

[← 我國肇造五年 (Our Country Founded Five Years Ago), Concordia Association Jinzhou leaflet for 18 September](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/concordia-association-jinzhou-leaflet-mukden-anniversary-1936/) [El Pensamiento Navarro, front page (Pamplona, 18 September 1936): "Por Dios y por España" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/el-pensamiento-navarro-pamplona-1936/)

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