RADwJ House & Camp Flag

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  • RADwJ House & Camp Flag Obverse

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  • Country
    Germany
  • Image Licensing
    The image of the RADwJ House & Camp Flag is attributed to Fornax at Wikipedia and is in the public domain through the CC-SA 3.0 Unported License. This image has been cropped. For more information see the following page: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:RAD_Weibliche_Jugend.svg

History


The RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst = Reich Labour Service) was officially established on June 26, 1935 as the sole, and compulsory, labour service of Germany. Its purposes were to help the economy, curb unemployment, and indoctrinate its members with the NSDAP ideology, as well as play its part in militarising the German population.

The FAD (Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst = Voluntary Labour Service) was the precursor of the RAD in the early 1930s. Official uniform regulations were first introduced on October 1, 1933, with modifications made in July 1934. It is also known as NSAD (Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst = National Socialist Labour Service).

The earliest uniforms were a not entirely successful attempt at standardisation. They gave way to a second wave of FAD uniforms that, when the RAD was established, experienced no significant changes.

The Reichsarbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend (RADwJ, Reich Labour Service of Female Youths) was the female branch of the RAD. It was smaller than the male branch. In accordance with the place of a woman within the nationalsocialist ideology, the tasks the young women were assigned were chosen to prepare them for a domestic life of caring and nurturing. They included, for example, light farm work, taking care of the young, the old, and the sick, and organising entertaining events. While outwardly organised in a similar manner as the male branch, including the wear of uniforms, the RADwJ was much less militarised.

The House and Camp Flag of the female RAD branch is a red rectangular field with a white disc and a black RADwJ emblem inside, a swastika with two wheat ears. The disc is positioned closer to the flag pole, not centered.

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