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
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.
- Date
- September 14, 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- El Diario Vasco, San Sebastián daily (owner and editor not named on the page or the Commons record)
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Nationalist Spain
- Leader
- Miguel Cabanellas
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Spanish Civil War
- Techniques
- Name-callingGlittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons scan of El Diario Vasco (San Sebastián), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Commons {{PD-old-80}} + Collective work (Spain); URAA status not cleared; hosted on owner decision October 2, 2026
Wikimedia Commons, File:El Diario Vasco egunkaria 1936.jpg: El Diario Vasco (San Sebastián), 14 September 1936; collective work, no source stated.
Text on the object
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
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.
