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Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Barry Hoffman Nazi Postcard Collection

Winter Relief

October 2, 2023

Accession number: 2022.02.8.1

Stamp: Mi:DR 565, Sn:DE 448, Yt:dr 524, Sg:DR 562, UnDR 524

Postmark: Rectangular postmark featuring a person with their arms spread wearing a long garment with large sleeves.  A castle on a stick is in their left hand and flowers resting on the right.  A German skyline is behind them.

Artist: A.Berr

Historical background: The “Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes” (Winter Relief for the German People) was a charitable organization run under the Nationalist Socialist People’s Welfare. This postcard was used as a fundraising advertisement for the 1933/1934.

 

[Front]

Winter Relief for the German People

 

[Back]

WinterRelief for the German People

Front

Watercolor painting of a Nazi soldier in uniform holding a Nazi flag. Above the soldier in white lettering reads, “Banristrhes Beamte Noropfer sur winterhilfe” or Bavarian officials’ emergency fund-raising for Winter relief. The soldier is standing in front of a plaque with a swastika. Surrounding the plaque are fifteen different symbols on gray blocks that represent the different areas that the winter relief funded.  On top of the symbols is an eternal flame.

Back

The back of the postcard features a handwritten letter.

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