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World War II - Displaced Persons (Refugee) Camps - Germany

• In WW II Germany there were a number of Displaced Person or Refugee camps and there were, in various cities throughout Germany, so-called NSF points, places where displaced persons (refugees) got registered, signed up for food coupons, and received medical care and temporary housing. These displaced persons were then distributed to the various DP camps in Germany. These camps were refugee or DP camps, not concentration camps. I need to know what NSF is an acronym for. It is likely that NSF is an acronym for the full name of these centers where DP's were processed. It is possible that the full name is in German.

• Answer:

  Dear slipshod, I have do doubt that "NSF", in the context described by you, stands for "Nationalsozialistische Frauenschaft" (short: NS-Frauenschaft, acronym: NSF), which means "National Socialist Women's Organisation". The NSF was the official umbrella organisation for Nazi women's organisations, together with the Deutsches Frauenwerk (German Women's Movement, DFW) where former non-Nazi organisations had been pooled. Reichsfrauenführerin (Reich Women's Leader) Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902-1999) presided over both NSF and DFW, so they were effectively one single organisation comprising all German women's organisations. In addition, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink was also Leiterin des Reichsfrauenbunds des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes (Leader of the Reich Women's League of the German Red Cross) and of the Frauenamt der Deutschen Arbeitsfront (Women's Bureau of the German Labour Organisation, a universal Nazi substitute organisation for the abolished trade unions), making the NSF effectively a widely ramified organisation with access to a wide range of resources, such as canteen and field kitchens, clothing, health care facilities and much more, not to mention a huge pool of personnel and organisational structures that spanned the entire country. One of the main fields of activity of the NSF was charitable work. During the war, this was expanded to providing support to those who had lost their homes as a result of boming raids. Since the NSF's leader was also presiding over other women's organisations, those too were incorporated into the work. When in late 1944 refugees from the eastern parts of Germany started arriving, very often without any property and under chaotic circumstances, the NSF was among the organisations providing support to these persons and organising lodging and catering for them. It should not be concealed that, apart from all charitable aspects, the NSF was an organisation completely devoted to the views and aims of the Nazi ideologists. Best regards, Scriptor