Chodźmy na roboty rolne do Niemiec! (Let us go to agricultural work in Germany!)

Chodźmy na roboty rolne do Niemiec! (Let us go to agricultural work in Germany!)

A young man in work clothes points toward a sunlit field of harvesters while a crowd of villagers with scythes and rakes presses behind him; the headline calls on the viewer to go to farm work in Germany and report at once to the village head. The tell: a first-person-plural call over a following crowd of ordinary villagers stands in for any terms of work.

Date
1940
Made by
German occupation administration of the General Government (issuer not printed; catalogued by the Polish National Digital Archive, sygn. 2-5938)
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Rights
Public domain (official work of a German authority, section 5 UrhG; Commons tag PD-GermanGov)
Unknown author; Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, via Wikimedia Commons.

Text on the object

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

Chodźmy na roboty rolne
do Niemiec!

Zgłoś się natychmiast u Twojego wójta

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

Let us go to agricultural work
to Germany!

Report immediately to your village head (wójt)

A small artist's mark at the lower right of the artwork is not transcribed. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.