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title: Allen in de Nederlandsche Unie (All in the Netherlands Union)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allen-in-de-nederlandsche-unie-1940/
description: A large photographic close-up of a weathered older man in a beret smiles under the headline 'Allen in de Nederlandsche Unie' (All in the Netherlands…
section: Collection
---

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[![Allen in de Nederlandsche Unie (All in the Netherlands Union)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/allen-in-de-nederlandsche-unie-1940.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/allen-in-de-nederlandsche-unie-1940.jpg)

# Allen in de Nederlandsche Unie (All in the Netherlands Union)

A large photographic close-up of a weathered older man in a beret smiles under the headline 'Allen in de Nederlandsche Unie' (All in the Netherlands Union), with a handwritten membership request pinned to the corner. The tells: an ordinary working man stands for the whole population, and the word 'Allen' (all) presents joining as what everyone is already doing.

- **Date:** 1940
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** Nederlandsche Unie (Netherlands Union), a Dutch national-unity movement permitted under German occupation until December 1941
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [Netherlands](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=netherlands)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=movement)
- **Regime:** [German Occupation of the Netherlands](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=german-occupation-of-the-netherlands)
- **Leader:** [Arthur Seyss Inquart](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=arthur-seyss-inquart)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Recruit](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=recruit)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Streekarchief Midden-Holland, Gouda, inventory 0037. 776)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allen_in_de_Nederlandsche_Unie.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (anonymous 1940-41 Dutch work; Commons tag PD-anon-70-EU) Unknown author; Streekarchief Midden-Holland, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

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

```
Allen in de
NEDERLANDSCHE UNIE

[handwritten on a card pinned to the photograph:]
Ik verzoek u
Mij als lid van
"De Nederlandsche Unie"..
te willen inschrijven.
[signature illegible]
```

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

```
All in the
NETHERLANDS UNION

[handwritten on a card pinned to the photograph:]
I request that you
enrol me as a member of
"The Netherlands Union"..
[signature illegible]
```

Archive stamps of the Gouda municipal archive service are printed at the top, right and bottom edges and are not part of the poster text. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← 銃後の總親和 第二回總選挙 (Total Harmony on the Home Front: Second General Election), Taiwan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jugo-no-soshinwa-taiwan-election-1939/) [Careless Talk Costs Lives: "...strictly between these four walls!" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/careless-talk-four-walls-fougasse-1940/)

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