National Socialist People's Welfare

The National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV ) was established on April 18, 1932 by the Nazis as a registered association and collected on 3 May 1933, just months after the seizure of power, the party organization of the NSDAP. The seat was located in Berlin- Wilmersdorf, the building complex by the architect Hugo Constantin Bartels.

Organization and History

As part of the DC circuit with the prohibition of workers' welfare, the NSA joined as a state organization and association in addition to the seven remaining welfare organizations.

Although the NSA did not succeed in spite of the prohibition of workers' welfare, the monopolization of all the free welfare, but leading organizations such as the German Red Cross (DRK ), the Lutheran Diakonia or the Catholic Caritas were initially pushed back.

The structure of the NSA resembled the structure of the NSDAP with local, county and group administrations. It was subdivided into six departments: organization, financial management, welfare and youth welfare, public health, propaganda and training. The NSA received their directives from the "Main Office for People's Welfare ". Mid- 1939 the NSA from Gau- 40, 813 Circle, 26138 Ortswaltungen, 97161 511 689 cells and blocks.

As long as there was still mass unemployment, the NSA also helped needy families financially, then (from about 1938) they shifted to pure services. In this context, the operation NSV nursery schools, which came into competition with similar religious institutions. Party members brought their children into the new NSI kindergartens with their Hitler cult slogan " hands fold lower head - always think of the leader. He gives you your daily bread and deliver you from all trouble. "

During the Second World War, the NSA took over more and more (actually state ) tasks, especially in the area of child and youth work. She organized from 1940 Kinderlandverschickung for children under ten years. One of the better known charities NSI was named "Mother and Child ". This took care of the "Aryan" women throughout pregnancy and after the birth of the child. Mothers were also continuing financial support in emergencies. In the kindergartens and maternal homes of NSV care was continued.

NSI was financed from donations and the contributions of its paying members. The end of 1938, there were approximately one million volunteers of NSI. When the war began, the NSA was one of eleven million members.

The NSV was from 1933 editor of the monthly magazine National Socialist People's Service from 1936 and the book series Eternal Germany.

Aid agencies and services

The following aid agencies and institutions were under the NSA:

  • Relief mother and child
  • Mothers service in the German Women's Federation
  • Adolf- Hitler - free place donation
  • Kindergarten
  • Home help
  • Community nursing stations
  • Youth Services
  • Tuberculosis Relief
  • Motorized dental clinics
  • Station service
  • Fund for the German visual arts
  • Nutrition Fund
  • Winter Relief
  • Kinderlandverschickung
  • Reich Association of German youth homes e.V.
Marisfeld Evacuations of children in Germany during World War II
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