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• Plate 65: Women's Labour Service / National Labour Service - Female Youth Section (RADwJ) (Frauenarbeitsdienst)
• Service uniform for Arbeitsmaid Arbeitsmaid (equivalent to RAD Arbeitsmann)
  • The service uniforms as worn by the members of the RADwJ were in the same earth brown colour with the same chocolate brown collar as were used by the RAD for men.
  • A circular RADwJ badge decorated with the sheaths and swastika emblem, worn at the throat as a brooch on the blouse, indicates the rank of Maidenführerin (equivalent to RAD Feldmeister). Prior to its separation from the NS Frauenschaft in 1936, a series of rank brooches had been introduced and were worn until August of 1937, when a new series of rank brooches were introduced. The second pattern (1937) rank brooches were utilized until a third and final pattern was introduced in October of 1939.

Colour plate showing a uniform of the Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD), a major organisation established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. The official state labour service was divided into separate sections for men (RAD/M) and women (RAD/wJ). From 1935 onward, men aged between 18 and 25 may have served six months before their military service. During World War II compulsory service also included young women and the RAD developed to an auxiliary formation which provided support for the Wehrmacht armed forces.

A paramilitary RAD uniform was implemented in 1934; beside the swastika brassard, the RAD symbol, an arm badge in the shape of an upward pointing shovel blade, was displayed on the upper left shoulder of all uniforms and great-coats worn by all personnel. The official symbol of the corps for the men’s camps and section was popularly known as die Kaffeebohne ("The coffee bean"). The women’s symbol also had sheaths, but with a swastika instead of a spade head and a swastika; the RADwJ emblem consisted of a swastika between two ears of barley in a chevron shape..

Page from Organisationsbuch der NSDAP., 3rd edition 1937:

• Issued by the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Reichsorganisationsamt (The National Organization Office of the National Socialist German Workers' Party) under its leader Robert Ley (1890–1945, Reichsorganisationsleiter, head of the party organization).
• Published by Zentralverlag der NSDAP/Franz Eher Nachfolger in Munich, Germany.
• German language.
• Fraktur style letters.
• No known copyright restrictions.

Page from Organisationsbuch der NSDAP., 3rd edition 1937:

• Issued by the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Reichsorganisationsamt (The National Organization Office of the National Socialist German Workers' Party) under its leader Robert Ley (1890–1945, Reichsorganisationsleiter, head of the party organization).
• Published by Zentralverlag der NSDAP/Franz Eher Nachfolger in Munich, Germany.
• German language.
• Fraktur style letters.
• No known copyright restrictions.
• Scanned page downloaded from the Internet Archive (archive.org)