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Reichsarbeitsfuhrer Konstantin Hierl
RAD photo book Schaffen fuer Deutschland
swastika banner, Hitler portrait
Arbeitsmann mit ED, RAD uniform, RAD patch
Nazi paramilitary organization RAD
eibliche RAD
RAD paramilitary training
Reichsarbeitsdienst under arms
RAD on the East Front
RAD, freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst
Schaffen für Deutschland is far and away the best book published in Nazi Germany about the concept of and deployment of the RAD in times of peace and times of war. This 70+ year old example is complete and in nice used condition. No odor.
Wehrmacht oath of allegiance
Nazi military training, Nazi rifle
RAD women harvesting wine grapes on the Moselle river
Few know it today but the Nazi Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD or German State Labor Service) which was begun as a civilian paramilitary organization was deployed, under arms in combat situations along side regular soldiers.

This beautiful 8-3/4 x 12-1/8 inch, 240 page very, very heavily illustrated hard cover book is called Schaffen für Deutschland and tells the story of the RAD in peace and in war time. Although it is undated it was probably printed in 1943 at the direction of Reichsarbeitsführer Konstantin Hierl by Johann Kasper & Co., of Berlin and Amsterdam. The cover art is by famous wartime illustrator Theo Matejko and the photos are by different RAD-Kriegsberichter or war correspondents.
Page after page of huge clear photographs show the peacetime work of the Reichsarbeitsdienst in clearing land, pouring concrete bunkers, erecting barbed wire barricades, building bridges, etc. A larger portion of the book is devoted to splendid photos of the Reichsarbeitsdienst under arms putting their skills to use as combat engineers, learning to shoot, setting communications poles and stringing wire, capturing prisoners, being decorated with the Iron Cross, moving field guns and other equipment.
RAD women are shown too as their jobs changed from harvesting crops to working in factories, nursing wounded Wehrmacht soldiers and taking over jobs formerly done by men.

Have a look at other original RAD material for sale on USMBOOKS.com:

- original 1937 photo book about the Nazi Labor Service concept
- rare 1937 hardcover photo book on the housing for men of the Nazi Labor Service
- 'Workmen of the Führer', a Hoffmann-style 1937 Nazi photo book about the men of the RAD
- Nazi photo book about the RAD in action on the East Front
- 1937 Nazi educational publication about the RAD
This oversized war-time RAD photo book is ** SOLD **.
 
USM book #174
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OVERSIZED WAR-TIME NAZI ARBEITSDIENST PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY

HUGE PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE REICHSARBEITSDIENST
IN PEACE AND IN WAR

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