Winterhilfswerk

When Adolf Hitler’s National Socialists took control of Germany in 1933, they continued the Weimar Republic’s campaign to benefit the common man. One of these Nazi civic programs helped provide food, clothing, and winter heat for Germany’s poor who numbered in the millions after the great depression of 1929.

In 1931, Heinrich Bruning, the Weimar chancellor, had developed a benevolent plan called the (WHW —