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title: V = Zwycięstwo Niemiec na wszystkich frontach (V = Victory of Germany on all fronts)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/v-zwyciestwo-niemiec-polish-v-poster-1941/
description: A photographed street poster with a huge white V on black, an equals sign, and the words 'Victory of Germany on all fronts', above four hand-lettered…
section: Collection
---

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[![V = Zwycięstwo Niemiec na wszystkich frontach (V = Victory of Germany on all fronts)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/v-zwyciestwo-niemiec-polish-v-poster-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/v-zwyciestwo-niemiec-polish-v-poster-1941.jpg)

# V = Zwycięstwo Niemiec na wszystkich frontach (V = Victory of Germany on all fronts)

A photographed street poster with a huge white V on black, an equals sign, and the words 'Victory of Germany on all fronts', above four hand-lettered tallies of Soviet tanks, aircraft and guns destroyed or captured and prisoners taken. The tell: the V sign is reassigned to the occupier by an equation, and only one column of the ledger (Soviet losses, no denominators, no German losses) is shown.

## Text on the object

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

```
V=
Zwycięstwo Niemiec na
wszystkich frontach

Tak Niemieckie Siły Zbrojne
rozgromiły armie bolszewickie:
7615 czołgów zniszczono lub zdobyto
6223 samoloty zniszczono
4423 dział zniszczono lub zdobyto
Ponad 400.000 jeńców
Liczba jeńców i zdobycz stale rosną
```

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

```
V =
Victory of Germany on
all fronts

This is how the German Armed Forces
smashed the Bolshevik armies:
7615 tanks destroyed or captured
6223 aircraft destroyed
4423 guns destroyed or captured
Over 400,000 prisoners
The number of prisoners and booty keeps growing
```

The first word of the headline ('Zwycięstwo') is smudged in the photograph; the reading follows the Commons description. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

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