Collecting kitchen waste for a piggery of the NSV in Berlin, 1936 (b/w photo)

Berlin, Berlin/City State, Germany A woman and a boy in the courtyard of a Berlin apartment building put kitchen refuse from buckets into a collecting bin of the National Socialist People's Welfare Organization (NSV). Above the bin hangs a so-called "NSV pig", a leaflet in the form of a pig with information related to wastes a pig can eat. The wastes are collected by volunteers of the NSV and delivered to the Ernaehrungshilfswerks des Deutschen Volkes (food relief organization of the German people) (EHW), an organization of the NSV, which was assigned the task to collect kitchen and food waste from urban households and companies, unused till then, to use it as pig fattening in the agriculture. The EHW had built for this purpose several pigsties, here the waste will be used for an experimental pig farm with 79 pigs in the north of Berlin, which had been set up by the local group "Arkona" of the NSV. The pigs are provided by the Reichsnaehrstand and then sold.