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title: Vrijheid - Recht - Welvaart (NSB poster)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vrijheid-recht-welvaart-nsb-1940/
description: 'A streamlined colour poster: a white gull-like bird with a red eye rises behind a dagger held upright by a fist, in front of a brick chimney, above the…'
section: Collection
---

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[![Vrijheid - Recht - Welvaart (NSB poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vrijheid-recht-welvaart-nsb-1940.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vrijheid-recht-welvaart-nsb-1940.jpg)

# Vrijheid - Recht - Welvaart (NSB poster)

A streamlined colour poster: a white gull-like bird with a red eye rises behind a dagger held upright by a fist, in front of a brick chimney, above the party initials NSB in black over red. The three abstract virtue words 'Vrijheid - Recht - Welvaart' (Freedom - Justice - Prosperity) across the top are the tell: no programme or claim is stated, only positive words tied to the party's name and emblems.

- **Date:** 1940
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging in Nederland (NSB); printed by Mes & Bronkhorst, Haarlem
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [Netherlands](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=netherlands)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Party](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=party)
- **Regime:** [German Occupation of the Netherlands](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=german-occupation-of-the-netherlands)
- **Leader:** [Arthur Seyss Inquart](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=arthur-seyss-inquart)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Theme:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics)
- **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii)
- **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Streekarchief Midden-Holland, Gouda, inventory 0037. 661)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vrijheid_-_Recht_-_Welvaart_NSB.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (anonymous 1940-44 Dutch work; Commons tag PD-anon-70-EU) Unknown author; Streekarchief Midden-Holland, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

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

```
VRIJHEID - RECHT - WELVAART

NSB
NSB

DRUK MES & BRONKHORST HAARLEM
```

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

```
FREEDOM - JUSTICE - PROSPERITY

NSB
NSB

PRINTED BY MES & BRONKHORST HAARLEM
```

The upper initials NSB are black and the lower are red, with the dagger grip overlapping the middle letters. A small printer's or archive mark sits at the lower left and is not legible as text. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

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