Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt

  • National Socialist People's Welfare
  • NSV
Identifier
698
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

Founded in 1932-04

History

Created in 1932-04 as an internal welfare agency for party members, the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt soon after the Nazi accession to power began to co-ordinate and absorb existing voluntary welfare institutions, and eventually came to dominate the entire field of welfare work in Nazi Germany.

Places

  • Founded and active in Germany.

Sources

  • The Totalitarian Party : Party and People in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia / A.L. Unger. - Cambridge, 1974. - p. 205