'Wintershilfswerk' Badges

A collection of seven badges, all seemingly plastic. The Winterhilfswerk (WHW) was an annual drive by the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (the National Socialist People's Welfare Organization) to help finance charitable work. Its slogan was 'None shall starve nor freeze'. It ran from 1933-1945 and was designed to provide food and fuel to Germans. The Hitlerjugend and Bund Deutscher Mädel (boys' and girls' associations, respectively) were extremely active in collecting for this charity. Donors were often given small souvenir gratitude gifts of negligible value, of which these are examples.