Accession Number: 2022.02.8.21

Stamp: The stamp is pre-printed on and from the Winterhilfswerk collection. It features a sailing ship design and has a face value of 6+4 pfennigs.

The postcard lacks any handwritten text. “Postkarte” is printed on the top right of the postcard, and under the postcard’s illustration is the text “Winterhilfswerk des deutschen Volks 1938/39” as well as the month this postcard was produced “Januar”.

The illustration on this postcard is a female worker smiling. This series of labor-themed postcards were produced to promote a number of German trades as well as promote the ideal of a unified, hard-working people. There is also an illustration of the official seal of the Third Reich, an eagle clutching a swastika emblem.