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title: Los Nacionales, Ministerio de Propaganda poster (Republican Spain, 1937)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/los-nacionales-ministerio-de-propaganda-poster-1937/
description: 'Colour poster showing a small boat labelled ''Junta de Burgos, Lisboa'' carrying caricatured figures: a uniformed officer with a cannon.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Republican Spanish poster with racial caricatures of turbaned and fez-wearing figures and stereotyped depictions of a cleric and a financier, shown uncropped as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Los Nacionales, Ministerio de Propaganda poster, 1937 Spain poster: Colour poster showing a small boat labelled 'Junta](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/los-nacionales-ministerio-de-propaganda-poster-1937.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/los-nacionales-ministerio-de-propaganda-poster-1937.jpg)

# Los Nacionales, Ministerio de Propaganda poster (Republican Spain, 1937)

Colour poster showing a small boat labelled 'Junta de Burgos, Lisboa' carrying caricatured figures: a uniformed officer with a cannon, a cardinal giving a blessing, a stout man in a suit with a swastika badge holding a money bag, a turbaned man and a fez-wearing rifleman, with a bird on the mast and a paper reading 'Arriba España', over the title 'Los Nacionales' and 'Ministerio de Propaganda'. The tell: the whole Nationalist side is reduced to a boat-load of stock types (army, church, foreign capital and Germany, colonial troops), so a political and military coalition is reduced to a cartoon.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

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

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

```
Junta de Burgos
LISBOA
Arriba España
Los Nacionales
MINISTERIO DE PROPAGANDA
```

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

```
Burgos Junta, Lisbon; Up Spain; The Nationalists; Ministry of Propaganda
```

Text on the boat, the paper and the foot. The map on the mast reads 'ESPAÑA'. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.

[← Las armas deben estar en el frente (Republican poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/las-armas-deben-estar-en-el-frente-poster-1937/) [Facade of the Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome, photographed 1937) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mostra-rivoluzione-fascista-facade-rome-1937/)

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