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title: V = Duitschland wint voor Europa op alle fronten (V = Germany wins for Europe on all fronts)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/v-duitschland-wint-voor-europa-1941/
description: A landscape-format letter poster whose headline defines the letter V as 'Duitschland' (Germany) and claims Germany wins for Europe on all fronts, above…
section: Collection
---

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[![V = Duitschland wint voor Europa op alle fronten (V = Germany wins for Europe on all fronts)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/v-duitschland-wint-voor-europa-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/v-duitschland-wint-voor-europa-1941.jpg)

# V = Duitschland wint voor Europa op alle fronten (V = Germany wins for Europe on all fronts)

A landscape-format letter poster whose headline defines the letter V as 'Duitschland' (Germany) and claims Germany wins for Europe on all fronts, above one huge orange V and a border of small V's. The tell: a sign already in circulation as the Allied 'V for Victory' symbol is reassigned to the opposite side by a one-line equation.

- **Date:** 1941
- **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 Deventer as pro-German propaganda)
- **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:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/)
- **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 (Stadsarchief Deventer, 10_GF1_9 : 1369 : 70034)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V_%3D_Duitschland.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (anonymous 1941 Dutch-occupation work; Commons tag PD-anon-70-EU) Unknown author; Stadsarchief Deventer, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

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

```
V=DUITSCHLAND wint VOOR EUROPA
OP ALLE FRONTEN
```

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

```
V = GERMANY wins FOR EUROPE
ON ALL FRONTS
```

Faint show-through of the reverse-side printing is visible on the paper and is not transcribed. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← 'Stop useless resistance' (Japanese leaflet to the Hong Kong garrison)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stop-useless-resistance-hong-kong-leaflet-1941/) [Axis battledores (hagoita) and 'Axis young ladies': cover of Shashin Shūhō No. 151, Japan →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/axis-hagoita-shashin-shuho-1941/)

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