People's sacrifice for the Wehrmacht and Volkssturm

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The Volksopfer für Wehrmacht and Volkssturm (also Volksopfer 1945 ) was an action proclaimed by the National Socialist government in 1945 to collect items of equipment and clothing.

On January 5, 1945, Joseph Goebbels , Heinrich Himmler and Walther Funk jointly called for this collection campaign. From January 7th to 28th, 1945 clothing and equipment were to be donated to the Volkssturm and the Wehrmacht . Reich Education Minister Bernhard Rust ordered all schools to point out the importance of the collection; Reich Minister Lammers ordered all official uniforms that were not absolutely necessary for official use to be handed over.

Joseph Goebbels dictated on January 13, 1945 for his diary: “The large collection of textiles, which goes under the title 'People's Sacrifice', has started very well. We hope that we will achieve the desired result of 100,000 tons. If we achieve this result, we would get out of all current difficulties. "

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) opened a total of 60,000 acceptance points in the Reich. Through the "People's Sacrifice Collection" - which was later extended until February 11, 1945 - 80,000 tons of textiles could be collected throughout the Reich.

On January 10, 1945, Adolf Hitler issued an ordinance (RGBl. I, p. 5) promising the death penalty to those who misappropriated collection items.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so in Dietrich Denecke : Göttingen. From the Prussian middle town to the southern Lower Saxony big town 1866-1989. Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-36198-X , p. 267
  2. ↑ Klaus Mammach: The Home Guard. Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-7609-0642-7 , p. 98
  3. ↑ Home stories from the Orlatal ( Memento from August 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Joseph Goebbels - Diaries Part 2 - Dictations 1941 - 1945; January 15 - April 1945 / arr. by Maximilian Gschaid. Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22311-0 . P. 116
  5. ↑ Vienna in Review (accessed on December 3, 2010)
  6. ^ Kerstin Siebenborn: The Volkssturm in the south of Hamburg 1944/45. Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg 1988, p. 55