The Nazi dictatorship brought significant changes to how private charities operated in Germany, as the regime sought to centralize social welfare and demarcated lines of inclusion in and exclusion from the ethnonational community. Yet for an organization like the Salvation Army, a Protestant social service provider and religious movement, there were important continuities from the Weimar to the Nazi periods. At work in Germany since the 1880s, the Salvation Army operated homeless shelters, maternity homes, orphanages, and provided various forms of assistance to Germany's most poor and vulnerable. This paper explores the evolving government policy on the role of private religious charity in a modern democracy and what changed after 1933. It also examines the actions of the Salvation Army (die Heilsarmee), as it sought to improve its reputation, seek government approval, expand its work, and continue its vision of integrated religious work and social work. Its appointment as an approved auxiliary organization in the NSV (National Socialist People's Welfare) represented both a continuation of similar public-private partnerships in previous eras and also an unprecedented shift in focus.