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Miniature "button book" issued for charitable contributions by the Winter-hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes

Object | Accession Number: 2016.251.6

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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Miniature "button book" printed by the Nazi German government and given as a token gift to those who had donated to the Winter-hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes. The booklet could be worn on coat buttons as a sign that the wearer had donated to the charity.One of two miniature books sent to Jean Jones in Iowa from her German pen pal Irmgard Richter, whose parents were teachers in Berlin.
    Title
    Der Führer und das Winterhilfswerk
    Date
    publication/distribution:  approximately 1938
    Geography
    publication: Berlin (Germany)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jodie Butler
    Contributor
    Author: Heinrich Hoffmann
    Publisher: Presse-Hoffmann
    Issuer: Winter-Hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes
    Biography
    Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957) was a German photographer and Nazi propagandist. The son and nephew of photographers, he worked in the Hoppé studio in London before setting up in Munich as a portraitist and photojournalist. His photograph of cheering crowds on 2 August 1914 unwittingly captured the young Adolf Hitler, an event which would later benefit Hoffmann's career. Drifting to the far right after the First World War and revolutionary events in Bavaria, he joined the Nazi Party in 1920 and convinced an initially camera-shy Hitler of photography's political value. Hoffman’s assistant, Eva Braun, became Hitler’s mistress in 1930. After 1933, his virtual monopoly of Hitler photographs, as ‘the man who sees the Führer for us’, made him one of the Third Reich's major profiteers. His scenes of carefully constructed intimacy, presenting his master, especially in the regime's early years, as a clean-living, nature-loving man of the people, were massively disseminated. After 1945, though claiming to have been a mere chronicler of events, he was fined and imprisoned. His extensive photo archive survives, including photographs of German political and religious figures, as well as actors, painters, and musicians.

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Physical Description
    Miniature book with a string looped through a small hole in the back. [4?] pages; mostly ill. ; 5 cm.
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink, metal

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Jodie Butler, the daughter of Jean Jones.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-09-01 10:52:34
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