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title: Het Bolsjewisme gooit het masker af (Bolshevism throws off the mask)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/het-bolsjewisme-gooit-het-masker-af-1941/
description: A lettering-only poster in white on solid red asking whether religion and culture are to be destroyed in the Netherlands too, and stating that all Europe…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Waffen-SS volunteer recruiting poster using anti-Bolshevik fear language This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Het Bolsjewisme gooit het masker af (Bolshevism throws off the mask)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/het-bolsjewisme-gooit-het-masker-af-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/het-bolsjewisme-gooit-het-masker-af-1941.jpg)

# Het Bolsjewisme gooit het masker af (Bolshevism throws off the mask)

A lettering-only poster in white on solid red asking whether religion and culture are to be destroyed in the Netherlands too, and stating that all Europe is marching against the danger, above an enrolment address in The Hague. The tell: catastrophe language ('your existence is at stake', 'do not wait until it is too late') plus a single prescribed remedy, and an appeal to 'all Europe' as the crowd already moving.

## Text on the object

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

```
Het Bolsjewisme
gooit het masker af

Moet ook hier Godsdienst en Cultuur
vernietigd worden?
Of is Nederland nog flink genoeg
zelf mee aan te pakken?
Heel Europa trekt op tegen het gevaar.
Nederlanders, Uw bestaan staat op het spel.
Wacht niet tot het te laat is.

Meldt U voor den strijd!
in het
Freiwilligenverband Niederlande

Aanmelding bij alle bureaux der N.S.D.A.P.
en bij het Meldingsbureau:
STADHOUDERSLAAN 132 - DEN HAAG
```

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

```
Bolshevism
throws off the mask

Must religion and culture be destroyed here too?
Or is the Netherlands still sturdy enough
to lend a hand itself?
All Europe is marching against the danger.
Dutchmen, your existence is at stake.
Do not wait until it is too late.

Report for the fight!
in the
Freiwilligenverband Niederlande

Enrolment at all offices of the N.S.D.A.P.
and at the registration office:
STADHOUDERSLAAN 132 - THE HAGUE
```

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Volk en Vaderland, front page, 21 February 1941: "Joden - misdaad. Weerman Koot vermoord"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/volk-en-vaderland-koot-1941/) [V = Zwycięstwo Niemiec na wszystkich frontach (V = Victory of Germany on all fronts) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/v-zwyciestwo-niemiec-polish-v-poster-1941/)

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