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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Belgian Government Information Center; lithographed in the United States by Veit & Adler
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Belgium
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Belgian Monarchy
- Leader
- Leopold III
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Belgian Government Information Center; Veit & Adler. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-899c.
Text on the object
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
