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
- 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
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Nazi Germany
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Semantic hijacking
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Stadsarchief Deventer, 10_GF1_9 : 1369 : 70034), 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
V=DUITSCHLAND wint VOOR EUROPA OP ALLE FRONTEN
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.
