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
- 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
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, War and the military, Security and surveillance
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Fear appeal
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Collectie Stadsarchief Amsterdam: affiches, serie A), 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
STAKING BRENGT ALLÉÉN ELLENDE OVER UW EIGEN VOLK!
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.
