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title: 5,000 Danish Seamen Sailing for United Nations
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denmark-5000-danish-seamen-sailing-1939/
description: Two men in white shirts with folded arms are shown from below against a large Danish flag, above the words '5000 Danish seamen sailing for United Nations'.
section: Collection
---

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[![5,000 Danish Seamen Sailing for United Nations, 1939 Denmark poster: Two men in white shirts with folded arms are shown](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/denmark-5000-danish-seamen-sailing-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/denmark-5000-danish-seamen-sailing-1939.jpg)

# 5,000 Danish Seamen Sailing for United Nations

Two men in white shirts with folded arms are shown from below against a large Danish flag, above the words '5000 Danish seamen sailing for United Nations'. The tell is the flag and the low-angle heroic pose standing in for any detail of who sails, where or for what, so national pride in the seamen carries the claim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
PHOTOGRAPH BY LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE

5000 DANISH SEAMEN
SAILING FOR UNITED NATIONS
```

[← 5,000 Danish Seamen Sailing for United Nations on 800,000 Tons of Danish Ships](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denmark-5000-danish-seamen-800000-tons-1939/) [Denmark: Unconquered, Though Captive - The Grundtvig Church, Copenhagen →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denmark-unconquered-though-captive-1939/)

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