GERMAN WHW DONATION ROAD SIGN PIN - NO ENTRY LIGHT METAL

German WHW donation pin. Road signs - No entry. Light metals. German donation pin from the road sign series depicting a no entry sign. This pin is made of light metal(most likely aluminum) which is then painted red.

The back of the pin reads” verbot einer farhtrichtung.oder einfahrt”

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The WHW, "Winterhilfswerk" (Winter-help-work), was an annual charitable donation event held by the "NS-Volkswohlfahrt" (National Socialist - Peoples'-welfare) in which personnel from all of the NSDAP organizations would solicit donations from the public, and reward contributors with a wide variety of lapel badges or propaganda booklets

The organization would go door to door selling these pins for one or two pfennig.