WORLD WAR II GERMAN FILM REICHSARBEITSDIENST LABOR SERVICE 74162

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This historic German film was produced during WWII as propaganda in support of the National Socialist regime. It is presented in its original form as an historical document so that students, educators, researchers and the general public can see how the Nazi regime justified its criminal activities. The political symbols of the regime, including the flag, swastika and eagle, may appear on screen. Periscope Film absolutely condemns the Nazi regime and affirms that it committed grave atrocities, war crimes, and crimes against humanity before and during WWII. These include the tragic, mass extermination of millions of innocent civilians. We preserve these films in part so that these terrible events and victims are not forgotten.
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This short silent educational film shows activities of the Reichsarbeitsdienst (translated to 'Reich Labour Service', abbreviated RAD), a major organisation established by Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on German economy, militarize the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labor service, divided into separate sections for men and women. In some ways it could be compared to FDR's New Deal organizations such as the CCC or NRA, but in important ways it had a military component that made it significantly different.
From June 1935 onwards, men aged between 18 and 25 had to serve 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.
In the course of the Great Depression, the German government of the Weimar Republic under Chancellor Heinrich Brüning by emergency decree had established the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst ('Voluntary Labour Service', FAD) on 5 June 1931, two years before the Nazi Party (NSDAP) ascended to power. The state sponsored employment organisation provided services to civic and land improvement projects, from 16 July 1932 it was headed by Friedrich Syrup in the official rank of a Reichskommissar. The idea of a national compulsory service was quite popular, especially in right-wing circles, but it had little effect on the economic situation.
The concept was adopted by Adolf Hitler, who upon the Nazi Machtergreifung in 1933 appointed Konstantin Hierl state secretary in the Reich Ministry of Labour, responsible for FAD matters. Hierl was already a high-ranking member of the NSDAP and head of the party's labour organization, the Nationalsozialistischer Arbeitsdienst or NSAD. Hierl developed the concept of a state labour service organisation similar to the Reichswehr army, with a view to implementing a compulsory service. Meant as an evasion of the regulations set by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, voluntariness initially was maintained after protests by the Geneva World Disarmament Conference.
Hierl's rivalry with Labour Minister Franz Seldte led to the affiliation of his office as a FAD Reichskommissar with the Interior Ministry under his party fellow Wilhelm Frick. On 11 July 1934, the NSAD was renamed Reichsarbeitsdienst or RAD with Hierl as its director until the end of World War II. By law issued on 26 June 1935, the RAD was re-established as an amalgamation of the many prior labour organisations formed in Germany during the times of the Weimar Republic, with Hierl as appointed Reichsarbeitsführer (Reich Labour Leader) according to the Führerprinzip. With massive financial support by the German government, RAD members were to provide service for mainly military and to a lesser extent civic and agricultural construction projects.
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[@OswaldOstfalen]

Ich habe noch die Fotos meiner Opas (Jg. 1925) vom RAD. Auch meine Omi wurde 1944 zum RAD eingezogen, sie half in der Landwirtschaft und war dann Flakwaffenhelferin. Auch ihre Fotos von der Zeit besitze ich noch. In 6 Tagen wird sie 99 Jahre alt ❤.

[@timmeyer5373]

Der Film hat hier nicht die richtige Geschwindigkeit. Er läuft mit 24 B/s bewegungsecht durch. Ich habe nämlich ein 16mm Original dieses Films von 1937. Es gab davon übrigens noch eine Neuauflage mit RWU Symbol am Ende. Die Neuauflage von 1941 ist um ein paar Sequenzen gekürzt. Der Grund war eine Änderung des Lichtspielgesetzes durch Dr. Goebbels, wonach alle Filme vor 1940 nochmals neu geprüft werden mußten. 😎🤓

[@darthstanley166]

Sound?

[@PeriscopeFilmII]

These are the silent versions released for the German home market (read description of film).

[@Aislanzito]

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