WHW Winter Help Work. Listed as C~231 in The Medallic Portraits of Adolf Hitler.

Listed as C~231 in the Medallic portraits of Adolf Hitler PAGE 103.

THIS ITEM IS 70 YEARS OLD AND VERY RARE.

Obverse: A bust with striking resemblance of Adolf Hitler facing left with his name below "Adolf Hitler".

Reverse: Intaglio image of the obverse.

Physical Details: Oval clear glass 30x35mm.

Issued during the 1941/1942 Winter Help Work (WHW) campaign as a donation receipt.

IT IS IN GOOD CONDITION HAS TWO TINY CHIPS (Please see scan).

Winterhilfswerk:

The Winterhilfswerk (WHW, Eng. "Winter Relief" —literally "winter help work") was an annual drive by the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (the National Socialist People’s Welfare Organization) to help finance charitable work. Its slogan was "None shall starve nor freeze". The drive was originally set up under the government of Heinrich Brüning in 1931, though Hitler would later claim sole credit. It ran from 1933-1945 during the months of October through March, and was designed to provide food, clothing, coal, and other items to less fortunate Germans during the inclement months.

Certain weekends were assigned to all of the different Nazi associations, each with their own special Abzeichen to pass out in exchange for a pfennig or two. These highly collectible items were made of many different materials , such as wood, glass, paper, terra cotta, metal , and plastic. Over 8000 different pieces were produced by war's end, and some of the rarer ones sell for quite a lot of money today.