RADwJ Car Pennant

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  • RADwJ Car Pennant Obverse
  • RADwJ Car Pennant Reverse
  • RADwJ Car Pennant Detail RADwJ Emblem
  • RADwJ Car Pennant Detail Eagle Emblem
  • RADwJ Car Pennant Detail Unit Number
  • RADwJ Car Pennant Detail Tip

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    Germany

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.

Car Pennants were only used on a vehicle when the person to which it referred was riding in the car.

The Car Pennant of the female RAD branch was used by the ranks of Lagerführerin and above. It features a brown field, later changed to red in July 1938, with a white circle and a black RADwJ emblem inside. Additionally, there is a national eagle emblem in left upper corner. It features a district number in white Roman numerals or a school designation in Roman letters to the right of the disc.

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