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.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging in Nederland (NSB); printed by Mes & Bronkhorst, Haarlem
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- German Occupation of the Netherlands
- Leader
- Arthur Seyss Inquart
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Streekarchief Midden-Holland, Gouda, inventory 0037. 661), 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
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.
