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.
- Date
- July 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- German occupation authorities in the General Government (issuer not printed; Commons: 'German propaganda poster', V campaign)
- Country
- General Government
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Hans Frank
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Card stackingSemantic hijacking
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Polish archive negative, via Marek Tuszynski collection of WWII prints), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (official work of a German authority, section 5 UrhG; Commons tag PD-GermanGov)
Unknown author; Polish archive negative, scan by Jarekt, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
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
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.
