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
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
- Date
- 1937
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Ministerio de Propaganda (Second Spanish Republic)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Second Spanish Republic
- Leader
- Francisco Largo Caballero
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Religion
- Event
- Spanish Civil War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Commons public-domain tag; URAA status not cleared; hosted on owner decision October 2, 2026
Wikimedia Commons, File:Arriba España. Los Nacionales.jpg (author unknown or anonymous per the file page unless stated in the entry notes).
Text on the object
Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked
Junta de Burgos LISBOA Arriba España Los Nacionales MINISTERIO DE PROPAGANDA
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.
