Las destrucciones iconoclastas durante la Guerra Civil y su papel en la propaganda franquista

Abstract

La explosión iconoclasta que siguió a la sublevación del 18 de julio dio una baza notable a la propaganda rebelde para desprestigar a los republicanos. Se publicaron costosos libros y folletos en los cuales las expresivas fotos de imágenes mutiladas y templos destruidos dominaban sobre el texto; en su confección y redacción colaboraron historiadores y eruditos locales. Como complemento a esos folletos se celebraron exposiciones de obras de arte mutiladas y se trazaron rutas turísticas para ver iglesias dañadas por los anticlericales. El objetivo era mostrar a los republicanos como bárbaros y a los franquistas como los defensores de la civilización occidental.

The explosión iconoclast who continued to the revolt of July 18 gave a notable advantage to the re- bellious propaganda to discredit the republicans. Expensive books and pamphlets were published in which the expressive photos of mutilated images and destroyed temples were dominating on the text; in their preparation and writing local historians and scholars collaborated. As complement to these leaflets, there were celebrated exhibitions of mutilated works of art and tourist routes were planned to see churches damaged by the anticlerical ones. The objective was to show to the repub- licans as barbarians and to the Franco supporters as the defenders of the western civilization.