Winter Help..(winterhilfe)

[kreig01]

I picked up a very unusual item recently and need a little help on the history.....back during the 1930s....the Germans collected every winter for the needy..it was called WINERHILFE....I just came into posession of one of the metal cans used on the street corners...its red metal...has a lid on hinges...which can be locked.....and has slots for paper money and also one for coins....its painted a dark red....has raised initials WHN which are on what appears to be a three leaf clover ...which is painted White..and it has a handle on the back....I believe the WH stands for WINTERHILFE...but anyone know what the N would be for......NORD.?...for North....I appreciate any input on this subject....if I knew how to post pictures would do so.....anyway.....any opinions and help appreciated.....Hans

[Jan Faas]

Hans,

WHN is not German but Dutch and is WinterHulp Nederland.
WinterHulp Nederland started october 22 1940 by rijkscommissaris Seyss-Inquart and was ment for collecting money and supplies for the needed.
WHN started as a neutral party, but when prominent NSB (Nationaal Socialistische Beweging-National Socialist Movement) party members became member of WHN, the Dutch people knew what they where dealing with and the collecting was not very succesfull.
Promotional posters were often painted over with frases.
A funny one is this one:Nog geen knoop van mijn gulp voor de Winterhulp!
(Not even a button from my fly for WHN!)

If you send me your E-mail adress I wil send some pictures back if You want, because I can't post pictures also.

Jan

[andundiek]

whn

Hello Hans en Jan,

I have 2 diffrent types, funny thing is one of them had a paper wraping around with the name of a church overhere and had been used after the war to collect money again.......

[James Noble]

Here is a WHN picture IM posting for Jan.

[James Noble]

And a couple more WHN items Jan sent

[Colorado]

If you can find them with original paper wrapping on them, that is the true test where and how they were used. They are hard to find in that condition now. I have 2 and one is DRK and the other WHW. Without the paper, tough to tell.

[RonR]

Here is a can...............



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