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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.

Date: July 1941
Period: Second World War
Made by: Recruiting office for the Freiwilligenverband Niederlande, Den Haag (Dutch branch of the SS-Freiwilligen-Standarte Nordwest, per Stadsarchief Deventer)
Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: Nazi Germany
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Military
Regime: Nazi Germany
Leader: Adolf Hitler
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Recruit
Themes: War and the military, Religion
Event: World War II
Techniques: Fear appeal Bandwagon
Regime: Nazi Germany
Leader: Adolf Hitler
Source: Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source: Wikimedia Commons (Stadsarchief Deventer, 10_TLK12_3 : 1369 : 70074), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (anonymous 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

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.