Culture! Fascist Barbarity in Madrid / Kultur!

CULTURE! FASCIST BARBARITY IN MADRID Muro. Issued in Valencia by the CNT/AIT. The AIT or Asociacion Internacional de Trabajadores (International Working Men's Association) was the Spanish branch of the International Association of Anarcho-Syndicalist workers. It was formed in competition with the communist and socialist Internationals. "Kultur!" is in German in all versions of the poster, suggesting that this is how the culture of German fascism and its air force expresses itself in Madrid. The rest of the text is in Dutch, French, or Spanish, in alternate versions of the poster. Eleven numbered photographs of bombing damage, arranged to form a swastika, are identified in a key below: 1) Opera Square with the Opera Cinema and some houses after bombardment; 2) The bombs of factionists are used mainly against innocent children; here a poor baby lies beside other corpses killed by aerial machine-gun fire; 3) Here is what remains of the flaming Church of Saint Sebastian on Atocha Street after aerial bombardment by "nationalists" who call themselves "defenders of the Church"!; 4) The popular Globe Pharmacy on Anton Martin Street, demolished by barbarous aerial bombardment; 5) Once more, babies with their inoffensive parents at the depositing place for corpses; 6) Another view of Mayor Street, with the Cinema Pleyel; 7) Houses demolished by bombs of the pirates of the air; 8) Another view of the Globe pharmacy with Atocha Street to the right; 9) The effects of aerial bombardment of Alcala Street at the corner of the Puerta del Sol; 10) The fascist brutes do not take age into account; for them, it is a matter of killing people, even children!; 11) Detail of the market on Carmen Street, demolished by aerial bombs.

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