--- title: Engelsche hongerblokkade (English hunger blockade) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/engelsche-hongerblokkade-1941/ description: A type-only poster in red and black on buff paper. The red headline 'Engelsche hongerblokkade' is followed by a question to the Dutch reader that puts… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Engelsche hongerblokkade (English hunger blockade)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/engelsche-hongerblokkade-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/engelsche-hongerblokkade-1941.jpg) # Engelsche hongerblokkade (English hunger blockade) A type-only poster in red and black on buff paper. The red headline 'Engelsche hongerblokkade' is followed by a question to the Dutch reader that puts the words 'zoogenaamde bondgenooten' (so-called allies) under red rules and ends by asking whether they are trying to starve 'you and your children'. The tells: a food shortage is assigned to a single named outside party, and the scare-quoted label recasts the Dutch reader's putative allies as the enemy. - **Date:** 1941 - **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii) - **Made by:** German occupation authorities in the Netherlands (issuer not printed on the poster; catalogued by Stadsarchief Deventer as German propaganda against England) - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [Nazi Germany](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=nazi-germany) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Nazi Germany](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=nazi-germany) - **Leader:** [Adolf Hitler](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=adolf-hitler) - **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public) - **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front), [Economy and finance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=economy-finance) - **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii) - **Techniques:** [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - **Regime:** [Nazi Germany](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/nazi-germany/) - **Leader:** [Adolf Hitler](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/nazi-germany/#adolf-hitler) - **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Stadsarchief Deventer, 10_TLK12_2 : 1369 : 70091)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Engelsche_hongerblokkade.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (anonymous 1941-45 Dutch-occupation work; Commons tag PD-anon-70-EU) Unknown author; Stadsarchief Deventer, via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (Dutch) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` ENGELSCHE HONGERBLOKKADE Nederlanders! WEET U, DAT HET UW ZOOGENAAMDE BONDGENOOTEN ZIJN, DIE NU TRACHTEN U EN UW KINDEREN uit te hongeren? ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` ENGLISH HUNGER BLOCKADE Dutch people! DO YOU KNOW THAT IT IS YOUR SO-CALLED ALLIES WHO NOW TRY TO STARVE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN? ``` 'Zoogenaamde' and 'bondgenooten' are underlined in red on the original. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. [← 'Allons-y... Canadiens!' (Canadian Department of National War Services)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allons-y-canadiens-1941/) [Ils assassinent ! Enveloppés dans les plis de notre drapeau (They murder! Wrapped in the folds of our flag) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ils-assassinent-vichy-1941/) ## Using the same techniques - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India (printed sheet, Allahabad, 1 November 1858)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/queens-proclamation-to-the-people-of-india-1858/) (Nov 1, 1858 · Glittering generalities, Scapegoating) - [De Vlamingen aan de Negers van den Congo (The Flemings to the Negroes of the Congo)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/de-vlamingen-aan-de-negers-van-den-congo-1885/) (1885 · Scapegoating) - [The Radical Programme, No. 4: Dismemberment of the Empire (Gladstone & Co. auction India), St Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radical-programme-selling-india-st-stephens-review-1891/) (Oct 31, 1891 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating) - ["England and the War in South Africa" (Der wahre Jacob, 1899)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/war-and-capitalism-der-wahre-jacob-1899/) (Dec 5, 1899 · Card stacking, Scapegoating) - ["Negro Rule" vampire cartoon with sworn affidavit](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/negro-rule-vampire-1900/) (Jul 4, 1900 · Accusation in a mirror, Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Racist "Negro Rule" caricature. - [Японский Император и его лукавые доброжелатели (The Japanese Emperor and His Cunning Well-Wishers): Russian Russo-Japanese War print](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-mikado-cunning-well-wishers-1904/) (1904 · Name-calling, Scapegoating)