FAD Pennant

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  • FAD Pennant Obverse

    Image courtesy of Angolia, Littlejohn, “Labor Organizations of the Reich”

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    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 general FAD Flag also exists in the form of a pennant, a white circle on red, and inside the circle the FAD symbol, a straight-edge spade with two ears of wheat.
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