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title: 'This is Belgium: One of the United Nations'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-is-belgium-one-of-the-united-nations-belgium-1944/
description: A three-part sheet headed 'the people', 'their work' and 'the country' combines captioned photographs of 1940 ruins, craftspeople and towns.
section: Collection
---

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[![This is Belgium: One of the United Nations, 1944 Belgium poster: A three-part sheet headed 'the people', 'their work'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/this-is-belgium-one-of-the-united-nations-belgium-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/this-is-belgium-one-of-the-united-nations-belgium-1944.jpg)

# This is Belgium: One of the United Nations

A three-part sheet headed 'the people', 'their work' and 'the country' combines captioned photographs of 1940 ruins, craftspeople and towns, a text history of Belgium and the Belgian Congo, pictogram production charts and a comparison chart with the U.S.A. under the banner 'ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS'. The tell for card-stacking is the Congo section's account of colonial rule as health and education gains, with no figures for costs or forced labour; the pictogram charts lend a statistical look (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
this is
BELGIUM

the people / their work / the country

POPULATION: 8,500,000.

BELGIAN CONGO

ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS

[Body text, captions and chart labels in smaller type; headings and imprint legible:]
VEIT & ADLER
Lithographed in the United States of America
ISSUED BY BELGIAN GOVERNMENT INFORMATION CENTER
```

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