GERMANY’S WINTER

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1935, Page 5

GERMANY’S WINTER

BERLIN APPEAL

COLLECTION IN THE STREETS.

(United Trees Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

BERLIN, Jan. 20. Wtih the exception of Herr Hitler himself, all the German Cabinet Ministers, some with thjeir wives went out into the streets of Berlin with col-lecting-boxes for the Winter Help Fund. Five State, officials, the Lord (Mayor of Berlin and the city fathers Storm Troop Leaders, beauty and talent from the stage and film world, 'Germany’s 'most famous wartime. airmen, sportsmen like Baron von Cramm, Germany’s No. 1 tennis player, figures from the academic realm, including the Rector of Berlin University, authors, newspaper editors aryl a host of others all turned out for the occasion. The Berlin crowd which loves a holiday as much as any Other, rallied for the thrill of putting a coin into the collecting boxes of the famous. All Berlin was patrolled by the col lectors, even .the suburban railway. The. star turns were General Goering and Gcelihcls, with their escorts, | who had their beat in the Unter den Linden. They were besieged by enthusiastic givers. Dr Goebbel s had at one time to hold out the peaked cap of a Black .Security Guard, his collecting box having been quickly overfilled. Appropriately enough, Dr Schacht appears to have made (lie biggest haul. Mis beat, tin* Stock Exchange, was a very lucrative one, and, collecting-box in band, be collected 32,000 marks from its mem hors.

Although it was evdent that the overwlielining majority of the distinguished collectors- were cheerful volunteers m the Winter Help cause, the element of compulsion in all great Nazi celebrations was not lacking. According- to a newspaper, a high administrative! education officer who declined fo go out with a collecting box was immediately removed from his post. At a Rhineland university the names of TSO students were “posted” on the notice board as a punishment for having disohyed Nazi orders to take part i" Die campaign as collectors