WHW-bages


Paper badges for sticking up on doors showed who had donated. This unmasked the "not donators" -- and who wanted to stand out as such one? Simultaneously they served propaganda messages.
 

 
Paper badges showing a woman at the production of badges in home industry and a SA man with collecting box.

 
Door badge shows a family at the stew meal. 
The "stew Sunday" was a voluntary obligation at which the cost difference between stew and a usual Sundays meal should be donated to the WHW during the winter months.

 
Postcards of the WHW (after 1939 "War-WHW") 
 
 

Stew distribution
 
 
 

The representation refers to the war important virtues of work, fight and sacrifice.
 
 
 

 
WHW-collector's items from street collections with military symbols, small book about Iron-Knight's Cross owners and Hitler, ceramic figures (soldiers), weapons etc...

 
Objects from street collections: ceramic figures (birds, butterflies), tone figures, brooches out of synthetic material and metal, glass pendants with engraved animals etc...
However, even the harmless appearing badges had a hidden ideological background. (e.g. series designed to the topics "German fairytales" "German birds" "German towns/districts" ..., they should mediate a native country attachement)

 
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