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title: Ook zoo tevreden? Hij werkt in Duitschland (Just as satisfied? He works in Germany)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ook-zoo-tevreden-hij-werkt-in-duitschland-1942/
description: A blue silhouetted worker in an open collar, cap in hand and smiling, stands against orange factory chimneys under the headline 'Ook zoo tevreden?'…
section: Collection
---

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[![Ook zoo tevreden? Hij werkt in Duitschland (Just as satisfied? He works in Germany)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ook-zoo-tevreden-hij-werkt-in-duitschland-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ook-zoo-tevreden-hij-werkt-in-duitschland-1942.jpg)

# Ook zoo tevreden? Hij werkt in Duitschland (Just as satisfied? He works in Germany)

A blue silhouetted worker in an open collar, cap in hand and smiling, stands against orange factory chimneys under the headline 'Ook zoo tevreden?'; below, 'He works in Germany' and an instruction to enrol at the regional labour office. The tell: a smiling everyman and a question that presumes the viewer's neighbours are already content stand in for the terms of work.

## Text on the object

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

```
OOK ZOO TEVREDEN ?

HIJ WERKT IN
DUITSCHLAND

MELDT U AAN BIJ HET GEWESTELIJKE ARBEIDSBUREAU

[small print at lower left, partly legible:] PUBLICATIE TOEGESTAAN DOOR HET RIJKSCOMMISSARIAAT. 1 JUNI '42 TOT 1 JULI '42
```

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

```
JUST AS SATISFIED?

HE WORKS IN
GERMANY

REPORT TO THE REGIONAL LABOUR OFFICE

[small print at lower left, partly legible:] PUBLICATION PERMITTED BY THE REICH COMMISSARIAT. 1 JUNE '42 TO 1 JULY '42
```

The lower-left print is small and partly legible; the printer's line at lower right is illegible and omitted. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Crosses in the Wake of Allied Blockade, Japan Times & Advertiser cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/coral-sea-crosses-japan-times-1942/) ['Bullets and cannon too, from savings': munitions price spread, Shashin Shūhō No. 225 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/savings-munitions-prices-shashin-shuho-225-1942/)

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