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Germany WWII 1934-35 WHW Winterhilfswerk Winter Help 1/2 RM Reichsmark Lebensmittel Gutschein
About Uncirculated (aUNC) condition - see scans!
The Winterhilfswerk (WHW) was an annual drive by the German Government welfare organization to help finance charitable work. The Winterhilfswerk's slogan was "None shall starve nor freeze". It was instituted in September 1933 and designed to provide food, fuel, clothing and various household items to indigent Germans at first, and to war refugees and other civilian casualties in the later years. In many ways, it was similar to the US Foodstamp program.
WHW notes
were issued by the government and were redeemable with merchants for various
goods. The merchants would usually enter
their identity by the means of a stamp or handwritten signature on the back of
the note, most of the time cut off the upper right corner as a sign of
cancellation, and deposit the notes in a bank like cash in a normal banking
transaction.
This is an early example of such a voucher for food, worth 50 Pfennig, issued in Milow.
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