Germany's World War II Winterhilfswerk Campaign

Today is December 24, 2013 and I am continuing the Historic Soldiers Christmas Series. This episode's focus is on World War II ... specifically the German Army. The items that I have on display in this video are collectively known as WHW or Winterhilfswerk (Winter Help Work). It was a charity drive run by the Nazi Third Reich. This was in many ways a forced or coerced charity. People who were part of the campaign became known as "Can Rattlers" because they would take collection cans and literally rattled them in the faces of the German people and the souvenirs that were issued to those who donated to this campaign were released on an extremely limited basis. This was done so the organizers of the campaign could see who had donated recently.
In this video, you will see WHW items (with descriptions), a collection can and some authentic one pfennig coins (with the Eagle and the Hakenkreuz aka the Swastika) from the early 1940s.
Photographs with additional descriptions of the WHW items can be seen at this blog entry: michaeltheresea...