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Nazi Party Winter Hilfswerk collection box

Object | Accession Number: 2000.327.1

Date: use: approximately 1935
Geography: use: Vienna (Austria)
Language: German
Classification: Containers
Category: Metal containers
Object Type: Collection boxes (Fund raising equipment) (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Bloomfield-Oberholtzer Family

Physical Description: Circular red metal box with a handle. It has a paper label imprinted with German text with the Nazi national insignia in background. There is a narrow slot for coins and a hole with a label for paper currency at the top.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Diameter: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm)
Materials: overall : metal, paint, paper, ink
Inscription: on paper label, black ink : Winter-Hilfswerk des Deutchen Volkes / Gau Wien [Winter Relief of the German People / Vienna District
top, on paper label, black ink : papier geld / Vienna, Austria(?)
Topical Term: Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945--Pictorial works.
National socialism--History.
Corporate Name: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The collection box was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by the Bloomfield-Oberholtzer Family.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2021-02-10 09:14:22
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