BACKGROUND: The WHW, "Winterhilfswerk" (Winter-help-work), was an annual charitable donation event held by the "NS -Volkswohlfahrt" (National Socialist - Peoples’-welfare-organization), 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.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A red-painted, sheet metal can, roughly 17cm in overall height, and 10.5cm in diameter. A hinged lid is to its top, which is stepped as it ascends, with an angled coin slot to its apex. The lid has, immediately above its hinge, a small, circular perforation, with "Papier" (Paper) embossed to one side of it and "Geld" (Money) to the other. A handle is riveted to the reverse, beneath the lid’s hinge. To its bottom is the embossed maker’s name, "M. Westermann & Co," with "G.m.b.H." underneath it, for "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung" (Company with limited Liability), both arching above "Wesco" within a diamond, and with "Neheim -Ruhr" arching beneath that. The embossed number "8" may be seen below the latter location.