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Bon pour 1 litre de lait - Winterhulp
| Issuer | Winterhulp België / Secours d'Hiver de Belgique |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | WINTERHULP GOED VOOR EEN LITER MELK Deze Bon heeft EEN WAARDE VAN 2 Fr. en is niet meer BETAALBAAR na den (cachet) C 19706 |
| Reverse description | Blank beige paper reverse with no printed text or design, showing only minor aging and surface wear consistent with wartime utility issue. |
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Winterhulp België — the Belgian branch of the Nazi-organized winter relief network — distributed these milk vouchers during the occupation years as part of a broader rationing and social welfare apparatus that was, by design, both genuinely charitable and a vehicle for collaborationist propaganda. The organization was modeled directly on the German Winterhilfswerk and administered under German supervision, though staffed largely by Flemish and Walloon collaborators.
These tokens occupy an awkward category — neither banknote nor stamp — but they turn up in notaphilic collections precisely because they document the granular mechanics of occupied civilian life more honestly than official currency does.