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title: Staking brengt alleen ellende over uw eigen volk (Strike brings only misery upon your own people)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/staking-brengt-alleen-ellende-1944/
description: A white-on-black poster in which railway track runs beneath the word STAKING (strike), with a large skull centred above the line 'brings only misery upon…
section: Collection
---

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[![Staking brengt alleen ellende over uw eigen volk (Strike brings only misery upon your own people)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/staking-brengt-alleen-ellende-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/staking-brengt-alleen-ellende-1944.jpg)

# Staking brengt alleen ellende over uw eigen volk (Strike brings only misery upon your own people)

A white-on-black poster in which railway track runs beneath the word STAKING (strike), with a large skull centred above the line 'brings only misery upon your own people'. The tell: a death's-head image, not an argument or a stated consequence, carries the message, and the harm is placed on the strikers' own community.

- **Date:** 1944
- **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 Amsterdam as a propaganda poster of the German occupier)
- **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:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Security and surveillance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=security-surveillance)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)
- **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 (Collectie Stadsarchief Amsterdam: affiches, serie A)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staking_brengt_alleen_ellende.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (anonymous 1944 Dutch-occupation work; Commons tag PD-anon-70-EU) Unknown author; Collectie Stadsarchief Amsterdam, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

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

```
STAKING
BRENGT ALLÉÉN
ELLENDE
OVER UW EIGEN VOLK!
```

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

```
STRIKE
BRINGS ONLY
MISERY
UPON YOUR OWN PEOPLE!
```

Acute accents are printed over both E's of ALLÉÉN. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Still from "Japanse propaganda tentoonstelling", Japanese military propaganda film shot in Java (c. 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-propaganda-film-exhibition-java-1944/) [Air-raid notice: 'This city is the next target' (US leaflet to Japanese civilians) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/warning-next-target-japan-leaflet-1944/)

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