Author: Unger, Marta [Martha]. (b. 1903).Clerk in the Propaganda Ministry [1933]. In July 1934 was appointed Head of the Foreign Affairs department of the Reichsfrauenfuhrung.
Title: Typed Letter Signed by Marta Unger of the Reichsfrauenfuhrung Enclosing Information on the Government's Winterhilfswerk Program.
Description: Berlin: May 18th, 1935. 1935. - 88 words typed on sheet of cream paper, 11-5/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide, with her name & address typed at the top. Signed "Dr. M. Unger" with 2 ink corrections. Attached is a typed, single-spaced report on the 1934/35 Winterhilfswerk campaign filling a 2nd sheet of the same paper. The top corners of both sheets are creased with light creasing to their top & bottom edges. There is a paper-clip mark to the letter at bottom left. Folded twice for mailing. Very good.

Marta Unger writes in English to a Mr. B. von Schenk in Hoboken, New Jersey thanking him for his letter. "I was interested to read the article by Mrs. Ruth Frances Woodsmall about 'Women in the new Germany'. I met Mrs. Woodsmall last summer and showed her myself our German women work. But it is rather difficult to explain to people that, what we want, if the otherside stands on a quite different standpoint". She encloses a typed article in English about "our Winter Help Campaign 1934/35".

Dr. Marta Unger was born in Japan in 1903 to an American mother. Her family settled in Heidelberg, Germany in 1908. After working in the Foreign Ministry in Berlin from 1924-26, and obtaining a doctorate of law at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt, she worked as a clerk in the Propaganda Ministry. In 1934 she was appointed head of the Foreign Affairs department of the Reichsfrauenfuhrung, the post she held when she wrote this letter. In 1948, during the Wilhelmstrasse trial against German diplomats in Nuremberg, Unger was part of the defense team of Ernst Woermann whom she later married. Woermann had been the ambassador to China.

The Winterhilfswerk was a program to help clothe, feed and keep warm the needy during the winter months. An important part of its funding came from collection drives to which all good German citizens were expected [indeed were relentlessly pressured] to contribute. Unger's report shows the amounts spent on clothes and fuel, and on bread, flour, potatoes and other staples. She also writes about the "godmother" program by which childless people would give meals, clothes, shoes and Christmas gifts to a needy child. Very good .

Keywords: HISTORY; GERMANY; DR. MARTA UNGER; REICHSFRAUENFUHRUNG; WINTERHILFSWERK; WHW; COLLECTION DRIVES; TYPED LETTER SIGNED; TLS; T.L.S.; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; TYPED REPORT.

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