SUPPLEMENT TO THE CURRENTLY EFFECTIVE PROSPECTUSES OF EACH OF THE LISTED FUNDS

DWS Capital Growth Fund

DWS Communications Fund

DWS Core Equity Fund

DWS CROCI® Equity Dividend Fund

DWS CROCI®International Fund

DWS CROCI® U.S. Fund

DWS Emerging Markets Equity Fund

DWS Emerging Markets Fixed Income Fund

DWS Enhanced Commodity Strategy Fund

DWS Equity 500 Index Fund

DWS ESG Core Equity Fund

DWS ESG International Core Equity Fund

DWS Floating Rate Fund

DWS Global High Income Fund

DWS Global Income Builder Fund

DWS Global Macro Fund

DWS Global Small Cap Fund

DWS GNMA Fund

DWS Health and Wellness Fund

DWS High Income Fund

DWS Intermediate Tax-Free Fund

DWS International Growth Fund

DWS Large Cap Focus Growth Fund

DWS Latin America Equity Fund

DWS Managed Municipal Bond Fund

DWS RREEF Global Infrastructure Fund

DWS RREEF Global Real Estate Securities Fund

DWS RREEF Real Assets Fund

DWS RREEF Real Estate Securities Fund

DWS Science and Technology Fund

DWS Short Duration Fund

DWS Short-Term Municipal Bond Fund

DWS Small Cap Core Fund

DWS Small Cap Growth Fund

DWS Strategic High Yield Tax-Free Fund

DWS Total Return Bond Fund

 

The following disclosure replaces in its entirety the information in the “Investment Minimum” sub-section for Institutional Class Shares under the “CHOOSING A SHARE CLASS” sub-heading under the “INVESTING IN THE FUND(S)” section of each fund’s prospectus.

Investment Minimum

The minimum initial investment is waived for:

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Investment advisory affiliates of Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. or DWS funds purchasing shares for the accounts of their investment advisory clients.

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Employee benefit plans that transact through omnibus recordkeepers or that have assets of at least $50 million.

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Clients of the private banking division of Deutsche Bank AG.

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Institutional clients and qualified purchasers that are clients of a division of Deutsche Bank AG.

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A current or former director or trustee of the DWS funds.

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An employee, the employee’s spouse or life partner and children or stepchildren age 21 or younger of Deutsche Bank AG or its affiliates or a subadvisor to any fund in the DWS funds or a broker-dealer authorized to sell shares of the fund.

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Certain financial intermediaries that invest client assets in the fund through an omnibus account on a trading platform approved by the Advisor.

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Employee benefit plan platforms approved by the Advisor that invest in the fund through an omnibus account that meets or, in the Advisor’s judgment, will meet within a reasonable period of time, the $1,000,000 minimum investment.

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Shareholders with existing accounts prior to August 13, 2004 who met the previous minimum investment eligibility requirement.

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(for DWS Capital Growth Fund and DWS CROCI® Equity Dividend Fund) Shareholders with existing Institutional Class accounts prior to July 23, 2007 who purchased shares through certain broker-dealers authorized to sell fund shares.

Each fund reserves the right to modify the above eligibility requirements and investment minimum requirements at any time. In addition, each fund, in its discretion, may waive the minimum initial investment for a specific employee benefit plan (or family of plans) whose aggregate investment in Institutional Class shares of a fund equals or exceeds the minimum initial investment amount but where an individual plan account or program may not on its own meet such minimum amount.

Please Retain This Supplement for Future Reference

September 29, 2020

PROSTKR20-41