--- title: Bulamu animal cami mu! (We are only animals to you) (Pampango poster distributed in the Philippines) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-are-no-longer-human-beings-pampango-1951/ description: A purple-and-yellow poster reprinting a letter said to be from a German nun held with 1,500 others in a labour camp in Russia. (4 of 7) section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Bulamu animal cami mu! (We are only animals to you) [![Bulamu animal cami mu! (We are only animals to you), 1951 US poster: A purple-and-yellow poster reprinting a letter said](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/we-are-no-longer-human-beings-pampango-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/we-are-no-longer-human-beings-pampango-1951.jpg) # Bulamu animal cami mu! (We are only animals to you) (Pampango poster distributed in the Philippines) A purple-and-yellow poster reprinting a letter said to be from a German nun held with 1,500 others in a labour camp in Russia, ringed by drawings of guards whipping and beating nuns and of a bridge over the Dnieper. It asks readers to pray for the nuns. The tell is testimonial: an anonymous letter is vouched for only by the publications that carried it, with no checkable names or dates. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) ## Text on the object Original (Kapampangan) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` "BULAMU ANIMAL CAMI MU!" (SULAT NING METUNG A MADRE QNG RUSYA) "CALUGURAN CUNG MANGATUA: "Pagnasan cu sana ing aintindian yu caniting sulat cu qng bandang tauli a balita cu ing ma-bie cu pa. Tutu nang malambat a panaun ing pangapadala mi carin Russia. Mecad panamda-man yu nung nu anti ing caibug cu nang muli ban aquit dacayu. Nu na mo anti ing ecu pamani-ulat: Eyu cami sana cacalinguan! Pangadi yu cami sana! Saupan yu cami! Macalunus cami, mipaburen qng casaquitan! Eyu cami sana cacalinguan! Pangadi yu cami! [...] Metung yang balitang metangap queti quecatamu a menibat Russia inguil qng macapangablad a capasa-quitan a palasap da ding sundalung Ruso caring libu limang dalan a madre a atiyu qng lalam dang upaya qng carelang culungan, at iti mabalu mu inyang me-kaparala yang sulat a palihim ing metung careng ma-dreng aculung da. Ing madreng mekaparalang sulat, metung yang Alemana. Ing mesabing sulat mibulalag ya caring geganaga-nang labuad ning Europa; qng ulinaniti, ding Christian Brothers tamu carin Beltsville, Md. abalu da ing me-bangguit a balita babo. Bayu pamu, mibalita qng Brooklyn's "The Crusader." Ing balita da ding madre qng suculan tungcul qng macapangilabut dang capania-usan qng mayupayang Miglalang, qng capamilatan ning pangading Aleman a bildug da cabaldugan qng amanung Ingles. (Kinopia ya qng "The Crusader," Brooklyn, N.Y.) Pamahalan ning Kasaham Catolico ning Pilipinas ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` "We Are Only Animals to You!" (literal; Kapampangan, best reading) / (Letter of a nun in Russia) / "My dear parents: I would like you to understand this letter of mine as the last news that I am still alive. It has indeed been a long time since we were sent to Russia. [...] Do not forget us! Pray for us! Help us! [...] / This news that reached us from Russia concerns the suffering endured at the hands of Russian soldiers by fifteen hundred nuns in their camp, known because a letter was smuggled out to the parents of one of the nuns. The nun who wrote the letter was a German. [...] It was published in Brooklyn's "The Crusader." [...] (Copied from "The Crusader," Brooklyn, N.Y.) / [Imprint:] Published by the Catholic Union of the Philippines ``` Body text abridged at [...]; headline, subtitle, opening, explanatory box and imprint are given as printed. Translation is a literal best reading. [← Baco na caming mga tawo! (We are not people any more!) (Bikol poster distributed in the Philippines)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-are-no-longer-human-beings-bikol-1951/) [Aliwa Kami Lan Totoo! ("We Are No Longer Real People!") (Pangasinan poster distributed in the Philippines) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-are-no-longer-human-beings-pangasinan-1951/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities) - [Seljuq gold dinar of Sanjar, dated 493 AH, with the Abbasid caliph named on one face](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seljuq-gold-dinar-sanjar-caliph-name-1099/) (Great Seljuk Empire · 1099 · Testimonial) - [Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-bernard-preaching-second-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial) - [Opening page of the Estoire d'Eracles (William of Tyre in French), with the Crucifixion and Pope Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 1r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-urban-ii-preaching-first-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial, Transfer)