NSDAP Organisation NSV Members Identification Book

[BOB FREY]

Just received this NEAR MINT NSV ID document and thought I'd share it with you.

This is my first post so please bear with me.

I collect German ID documents, mostly those that have an intact owners photo, and in particular from the numerous civil organizations.

regards,

Bob Frey

Shenandoah Valley Virginia.

[hucks216]

Hello Bob and welcome to GMIC. I can't say I know much about the NSV being more a collector of military related paperwork. Care to shed any light on what they were responsible for? The images seem to be a bit too small - any chance of seeing an enlarged version of the second image?

[BOB FREY]

Here is the background on the NSV.

The Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (NSV), meaning "National Socialist People's Welfare" was a social welfare organization during the Third Reich. The NSV was established in 1933, shortly after the NSDAP took power in Germany. Its seat was in Berlin.

The structure of the NSV was based on the Nazi Party model, with local, county (Kreis) and group administrations.

Erich Hilgenfeldt, who worked as office head at the NSV, organized a charity drive to celebrate Hitler's Birthday on April 20, 1931. Following this move Joseph Goebbels named him the leader of the NSV. The NSV became established as the single Nazi Party welfare organ in May 1933. On 21 September in the same year Hilgenfeldt was appointed as Reich Commissioner for the Nazi Winter Support Programme (Winterhilfswerk). Under Hilgenfeldt the programme was massively expanded, so that the régime deemed it worthy to be called the "greatest social institution in the world." One method of expansion was to absorb, or in NSDAP parlance coordinate, already existing but non-Nazi charity organizations.

NSV was the second largest Nazi group organization by 1939, second only to the German Labor Front.

During World War II, the NSV took over more and more governmental responsibilities, especially in the fields of child and youth labor.

NSV was often discriminating against Jews, and refused to provide aid to them