WHW Donation Sheet with the hand stamp of the WHW Kreis Reutte Der Kreisbeauftragte (WHW Reutte County Deputy).
Reutte was about 150 kin (93 miles) southwest of Munchen.
As the core component of NS social policy, the WHW was designed to further the internal stabilization of the regime as well as its totalitarian infiltration. It served to eliminate material need, (the preeminent prestige objective of the authorities), to mobilize the population and facilitate total, close-knit control even within the private sphere of the home. It was designed to stimulate a sense of national awakening, and to synchronize and encourage voluntary conformity of the independent social service organizations. The Propaganda Ministry was portrayed as responsible for the WHW by means of film, newspaper, poster, and radio publicity. The WHW appealed to such concepts as “Volk community,” “national solidarity,” “readiness for sacrifice,” and to document a “socialism of deeds” that transcended groups and classes.