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
- 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
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- ScapegoatingName-calling
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Stadsarchief Deventer, 10_TLK12_2 : 1369 : 70091), 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
ENGELSCHE HONGERBLOKKADE Nederlanders! WEET U, DAT HET UW ZOOGENAAMDE BONDGENOOTEN ZIJN, DIE NU TRACHTEN U EN UW KINDEREN uit te hongeren?
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.
