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title: Weihnachtspakete für das W.H.W. (NSV packing parcels, Berlin)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/whw-weihnachtspakete-berlin-1935/
description: Four people, one in uniform with a swastika armband, pack Christmas parcels in a room hung with a large swastika flag; stacked boxes, tinned goods and…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photograph of Winterhilfswerk parcel packing in a room hung with a large swastika flag, 1935. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Weihnachtspakete für das W.H.W. (NSV packing parcels, Berlin)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/whw-weihnachtspakete-berlin-1935.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/whw-weihnachtspakete-berlin-1935.jpg)

# Weihnachtspakete für das W.H.W. (NSV packing parcels, Berlin)

Four people, one in uniform with a swastika armband, pack Christmas parcels in a room hung with a large swastika flag; stacked boxes, tinned goods and bags of food fill the tables. A poster is partly visible on the back wall.

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Dem Opfer [...]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
To the sacrifice [...]
```

Only the first words of the partly hidden poster on the back wall are legible; the rest is marked [...].

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