Original German WWII National Socialist People's Welfare Ceramic Wall Plaque - 4¼” Diameter

Original Item. Only One Available. The National Socialist People's Welfare (Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt or NSV) was a social welfare organization during the Third Reich. The NSV was originally established in 1931 as a small Party-affiliated charity, which was active locally in the city of Berlin. On 3 May 1933, shortly after the Party took power in Weimar Germany, AH turned it into a party organization that was to be active throughout the country. The structure of the NSV was based on the Party model, with local (Ort), county (Kreis) and district (Gau) administrations

This is a lovely and scarcely-surviving ceramic wall plaque for the NSV, reading along the edge: WIR SIND SOZIALISTEN DER TAT, or “WE ARE SOCIALISTS OF ACTION” with a man on horseback appearing to cut his cloak that a man on the ground is clutching. At the bottom is NSV and there are holes on both sides for mounting.

The glaze has some crazing and wear as shown but has survived very well all things considered. The diameter is 4 ¼” and it’s roughly ¼” thick.

Ready to display.

More on the NSV:
The NSDAP believed that the German race had to be strengthened through a process of natural selection, which required weeding out its weakest elements, so they had originally condemned the goals of charity and philanthropy. They opposed the extensive welfare system of the Weimar Republic for being wasteful, bureaucratic, and helping the wrong people, since it distributed welfare benefits indiscriminately without regard for race and often assisted people that they considered inferior. However, the Great Depression made their opposition to social welfare an untenable political position, so they eventually built an organization, however it was of course restricted to those who met the NSDAP's racial and ideological goals.