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The Labor Corps and Labor Front
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KRDF Badge (Item RAD 4-1) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is one of the nicest little tinnies produced in the Third Reich. It is from the "Strength Through Joy Movement" and depicts a man and woman wearing Bayriche Trachten Bavarian costume with the cogged wheel swastika as its central theme. It is from Oberbayern, the Bavarian highlands. Very nice and charming.
PRICE: SOLD |
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KDF Badge (Item RAD 4-2) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This pretty little badge is from the "Strength Through Joy" organization and depicts a tour ship with wine grapes, typical for Gau Hessen Nassau where this meeting place. Nice condition. Aluminum-type material. It measures 1 ½ inches across.
PRICE: SOLD |
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German Handworkers' Badge (Item RAD 4-3) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a solidarity badge with the freedom for the Saar movement. It proclaims "Handwerk und Handel Immerdar," "Handwork and Trade for All Time."
PRICE: $ 42.00 |
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Day of German Work: 1933 (Item RAD 4-5) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is the badge for Tag der Deutschen Arbeit. This is the national celebration badge in May 1933. It is brass-plated metal and measures 1 ½ inches high.
PRICE: SOLD |
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Hitler Quote Badge (Item RAD 4-6) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is an important early badge from the NSBO labor section. It has the statement made famous by the Führer, which says generally that in the future work will be "glorified." This is a 1933 (early) badge and is quite rare and ultimately important. The early national eagle is shown here. It measures 2 inches high.
PRICE: $ 65.00 |
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A Day Badge of the Farming Organization (Item RAD 4-7) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This beautiful eagle that graces this aluminum-material badge is the particular insignia of the National Farming Organization der Reichsnahrstand. This was from a special exhibition in Leipzig in 1939. Under the eagle is the swastika with wreath, sheath and sword plus Blut und Boden, "Blood and Soil," the motto of this important NS group. It measures 1 ½ inches in diameter.
PRICE: $ 55.00 |
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Helper's Badge (Item RAD 4-9) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This very nice little badge proclaims Wir Helfen, 1933-34. The wheat sheaths surmounted by a sun symbol swastika indicate it is a farm-worker's unit.
PRICE: SOLD |
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May Day 1936 (Item RAD 4-10) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is one of the more common of Third Reich tinnies, but still important to Third Reich history. It commemorates May Day 1936 with the implements of farming and industry designed and signed by Richard Klein, famous Reich artist of note. It measures 1 ¾ inches in diameter and is in fine condition. It's signed Chr. Baur Welzheim on the back.
PRICE: $ 22.00 |
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Aufmarch Badge (Item RAD 4-11) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This badge in brass-plated finish commemorates the march of the workers of the NS Labor Front in Hagen in September of 1939. It measures 2 inches high and is in nice condition.
PRICE: SOLD |
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German Handworkers' Organization Badge (Item RAD 4-12) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a rather crude badge depicting the hammer and sword of the NS Handworkers' Organization. It has no message on its front, but saysTag des Deutschen Handwerks 1938 on the back.
PRICE: SOLD |
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Aachen Commemorative Badge (Item RAD 4-13) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This labor-inspired badge is from the city of Aachen (Charlemagne's empire base). It's for a Kreiss party day held in 1935 commemorating 10 years of the Ortsgruppe Aachen. It says "Aachen Staat, Aachenland." Nicely designed with an ironworker with industrial hammers and the ever-present swastika. It measures 2 inches in diameter and is of an aluminum-type material.
PRICE: $ 45.00 |
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Sports Badge of the DAF (Item RAD 4-14) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This shows distance runners in sport contest sponsored by the NS Workers' Front. It's a small badge measuring ¾ of an inch in diameter for the 1939 sports competition.
PRICE: $ 25.00 |
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Badge for the Work Plan (Item RAD 4-15) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This little badge for Arbeitsschlacht (Work Plan of Action) is from the Gau Bavaria Ostmark. It shows the swastika with pick and spade. It’s small, measuring 1 ¼ inches long in triangle shape. Nice!
PRICE: $ 30.00 |
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The Sportappel Badge (Item RAD 4-16) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This badge indicates the desire of the NSDAP and the labor front to encourage mass participation in sports for a healthy worker and Volk. This is from an individual factory group in 1936. It’s of plastic and nicely designed.
PRICE: $ 30.00 |
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Insignia Badge of the NSBO (Item RAD 4-17) |
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| DESCRIPTION: The hammer with cogged wheel. This is not a badge. It has bend-over fasteners on its back. Nice shape.
PRICE: Sold |
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Table Knife from the Labor Front (Item RAD 4-18) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is a nice, clean table knife from a set used at a factory belonging to the DAF (Deutsche Arbeit Front). Dr. Robert Ley’s unit that was placed in the positions formerly filled by rather leftist labor unions. It measures 9 ½ inches long. It has the unit numbers and a letter combination denoting what factory it was with. The factories in Germany were replete with workers’ programs and specific dinners put on by the DAF. This knife is in stainless steel and aluminum and the blade is clearly marked fine steel (Feinstahl) Solingen and Rostfrei (stainless). A nice momento of an important part of German Third Reich history.
PRICE: SOLD |
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Meisterbrief, Master Craftsman’s Diploma (Item RAD 4-19) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This diploma was presented to a Mr. Johann Beer, born June 22, 1913, in the hamlet of Malsbach, and on June 17, 1937 he passed the Meisterprüfung (examination for a master’s certificate) to become a blacksmith with completion of all necessary preparations and requirements for leadership with master class title in this handiwork. It is signed by both the chairman (Vorsitzende) and assessor (Beisitzer). At the bottom under a picture of old Nuremberg are the words “Nürmberg--der Stadt der Reichparteitag,” Nuremberg--the city of the Reich’s Party Days. The document measures in its frame, 26 ½ x 9 ½ inches. The piece is bedecked with swastikas and also has the shields with symbols of the various handiwork professions up and down the sides. The condition is quite good for being 67 years old with a bit of stain here and there. The Beer family told us that the diploma hung in Mr. Beer’s blacksmith shed from 1937 to 1945 without benefit of frame or glass. The family framed it in 1955. This is one of only a few that survived the conflagration of the war and de-Nazification. This is a great NSDAP relic that would be a super centerpiece in a collection.
PRICE: $ 665.00 |
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Labor Corps Standarte (Item RAD 4-20 & FLAG 1-18) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a high-occasion standard of the RAD (Reichs Arbeit Dienste; Reich’s Labor Service). Several pieces compose this beautiful item. Presently it has an old 1940’s frame that it is mounted on. The veneer is chipping off and we suggest that if you buy it that this frame be scrapped and the standard be sent alone for the sake of postal efficiently and cost savings; however. we’ll ship intact if that is your desire. The size is about 45 inches x 48 inches. It is a very nice wall hanging. The name of a medieval knight of Germanic history is seen in the patch at the left-top corner. Most labor battalions were so named silver fringe is in good condition a very dramatic showpiece, indeed!
PRICE: SOLD |
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Book Album (Item RAD 4-21) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is a nice little personal album formerly belonging to a member of the Arbeits Dienst or Labor Service. It is in a very pretty leather-bound multi-ring cover with the corps’ insignia embossed on it. There are 29 photos with a 3 ½ x 5 ½-inch picture of Hitler with the chief Arbeitsführer. This may be a candid photo that the owner may have been allowed to take. If so, it’s a great addition to a swell album. We don’t charge more because of this! The album measures 16 x 7 inches and is in almost pristine condition. The words at the front translate to: “Memories of my service time.”
PRICE: $ 195.00 |
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Volkswagen Matchbox Cover (Item RAD 4-22) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is a little matchbox cover depicting the DAF’s (German Labor Front) cogged wheel logo over the people’s car, the Volkswagen. This was a trinket gift from the VW factory in 1938 to the workers. It’s made of thin steel and has the raised depiction on its front with the words “Grundsilegung des Volkswagen Werks Mai 1938.” We believe this was a gift to commemorate the ground-breaking for the new factory in May 1938. A nice little relic of the history of the world’s most popular automobile brought to us with the compliments of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
PRICE: SOLD |
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RADwJ Patch (Woman’s Labor Service) (Item RAD 4-24; YOUTH 4-4) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is the patch for the RADwJ (Reichsarbeitsdienst der Weiblichen Jugend). This was the female youth section of the RAD (Reichs Arbeit Dienst [National Labor Service]). This beautiful patch is thoroughly machine embroidered and has the reverse pyramid with RADJ in a tiny logo-style addition under the patch. (This is also embroidered). The numerals on the patch stand for what particular grouping the wearer would belong to. This particular one would be the XXVII and this Bizirke (section) would be “Westmark-Lothringen” (Saarbrucken). It measures 3 1/8 x 2 ¾ inches.
PRICE: $95.00 |
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Deutsches Arbeit Front Flag (Item RAD 4-25 & FLAG 1-19) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is an Ehrenfahne (honor flag) of the German Workers’ Organization, the DAF. This was the organization organized by Dr. Robert Ley after the Hitler government abolished all trade unions throughout Germany. The purpose of the DAF was to ensure the political stability and trouble-free running of German industry and commerce. The organization was welcomed by the greater percentage of the German workers because it gave them the opportunity to not just work and toil, but to be uniformed participants in a program that was rewarding both in enthusiastic pageantry and culture. Many ceremonies embracing patriotism and love of fatherland were held throughout the year. The programs helped the solidarity and comradeship between management and the workers (Kameradschaft). It made them N.S. equals as they worked for the greater German Reich. This is an actual flag and has the reinforced edging to receive the flagpole. The patch with “Rosenheim 1” in the corner indicates the section of the DAF where this group was centered—Rosenheim. This city was and is known for its huge beer brewery making the world-famous AuerBräu. In 1940, most of the workers at the brewery were drawn into the war service--industrial or military. In 1945, the allied air attacks destroyed most of the town and brewery, but it was rebuilt by management and coworkers all having belonged to the DAF where they learned such cooperation for the good of the nation and Volk! Hermann Göring was born in Rosenheim. The city was loyal and steadfast in their support of the NSDAP. The flag is 55 x 48 inches and is in immaculate condition. This is one beautiful Third Reich flag. It’s double-sided with silver fringe. Very nice!
PRICE: SOLD |
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DAF Flag (Double Sided) Very Reasonably Priced (Item RAD 4-25-A & FLAG 1-10) |
DESCRIPTION: Here is the affordable N.S. flag for the museum or collector who doesn't wan to lay out the big bucks that Nazi flags are presently bringing. First of all, do understand that this is an authentic flag of the Third Reich. It is a factory flag used by the DAF (Deutsche Arbeits Front), the replacement for labor unions and better than these gangster-ridden organizations that often are just that. Under National Socialism, the worker was "king." Seldom was there any labor disputes that could not be solved by the DAF units in German industry. The DAF was the worker's friend! This banner is double-sided and big (about 10 feet long). It has the brass fastening devices. The picture shown is ok but the flag is partly folded over the iron gate, so it's bigger than it looks. It has quite a few holes, but museums are not bothered by that. Authenticity is the issue and this is 100% authentic. As we said, it's reasonable...even cheap! Grab it because it won't last long. PRICE: SOLD |
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DAF Banner (Double-Sided) (Item RAD 4-25-B & FLAG 1-11) |
DESCRIPTION: This is a pretty nice banner from the Deutsches Arbeits Front, the NS labor organization that replaced labor unions in the Third Reich. This banner is double-sided with the center cogged whell and swastika separately sewn onto the red field. It is large (9' 4" long). It has a few holes but the colors are bright and it is very dramatic looking. Yes, it has a hole or so, but it is 100% authentic. Museums are not at all concerned about holes. Their concern is originality and this one is very authentic as all the flages offered by Germania are. We offer it at a very good price that won't shock your billfold. For an explanation of the DAF, go to Google and there will be several descriptions of the German Labor Movement in the Third Reich. There might even be one of two that look at it objectively???? The DAF was one of the most important units of the whole Third Reich apparatus. PRICE: SOLD |
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Book Bausteine zum Dritten Reich, Components of the Third Reich (Item RAD 4-26) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is 635-page book that is a presentation to a Franz Mühlenhoff from Group 100, Section 2/200 named ‘General V. Kluck’ signed by the chief field master. The page is headed with the word, Widmung (dedication) and is a gift from the RAD for performing work for people and state. There are great pictures throughout the book ranging from the history of the old to the new order and are represented by both photos and line drawings. It is a virtual treasury for the genuine Germanophile.
PRICE: $249.00 |
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Book Bausteine zum Dritten Reich, Components of the Third Reich (Item RAD 4-27) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This book, Borderland Baden, Spade to the Hand was published in 1939 in Karlsruhe. It chronicles the advances and performance of the Labor Core, Section XXVII in Baden. The book comprises 340 pages of text and hundreds of pictures to include many of the great men of the Baden area, castles, country estates, meeting halls, many RAD leaders, parades, the Führer, barracks work projects, songs sheets, NS history, and der Walhalla by Regensberg. This is one downright beautiful book in pristine condition and a great archival treasure. It is far more than just a RAD book; it is vastly replete with historical subjects of the Third Reich and more. It is one of the nicest books that we have ever handled with a subject seldom covered; beautiful!
PRICE: $245.00; very rare! |
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Calendar of German Work (Item RAD 4-28) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This Kalendar der Deutschen Arbeit is from 1943, and was published by the German Work Front. It consists of 143 pages covering all aspects in words and pictures of the war and the homeland: action drawing of armored engagements, homeland recreation, labor, industry, youth, FDR images in cartoon form, Luftwaffe and flying, etc. It is a rather neat Third Reich book. The inside is in great shape. The spine is a little distressed, but holding.
PRICE: $95.00 |
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Amber (Bernstein) Stickpin from D.A.F. (Item RAD 4-29) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Bernstein, or amber, is the sacred stone of Germany. Actually, amber is not a stone in the truest sense, rather, it’s fossilized resin from trees common to 50 million years ago. To the Norse people Bernstein was the golden tears of the goddess Freya that fell into the sea and solidified. Bernstein to the ancient Germans was the Burning Stone. When burned it gave off a pine scent 50 million years later and they used it as sacred incense. Amber is the gem of Germany. During the era of the Third Reich this ancient resin-like material was used for many artistic projects as well as décor. The Führer’s special editions of Mein Kampf were often a presentation piece with a cover made up of amber pieces. Rings, jewelry, and decorative plates were constructed from and using the Heilege Stein. In this case, we see a tiny chip of Prussian amber with metallic insignia attached, and the whole being crafted into a stickpin. The insignia is of the DAF (Deutsches Arbeit Front) and the Deutsches Handwerk Verwaltung. Under it is an attached tag in paper that identifies this chip as natural Bernstein (NB). As small as this little stickpin is, it has great N.S. significance. The handworkers of this organization often worked in amber and some of their accomplishments are things of immense beauty. This is historically important and neat as all heck.
PRICE: SOLD |
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Labor Cops (RAD) Officer’s Hewer (Item RAD 4-30) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is a nice example of the RAD Hewer by Carl Julius Krebs. Krebs had the original contract for RAD daggers being an early member and supporter of the labor organization and as far as we are concerned he made the best of these Roman-looking knives. We think other than the chained SS daggers, these are probably the best-looking edged weapons of the Third Reich. This dagger is accompanied by the scarce hangers in pigskin leather. The dagger is in very fine shape throughout, but the grip is a bit different finish than the scabbard. The grip looks to have a dull aluminum finish, while the scabbard is with a semigloss plated finish. The hangers are firm and holding up well, but the clips at the bottom where they attach to the scabbard are of the Luftwaffe variety. They don’t look to have ever been replaced so I assume they are an original variation??? All in all, this is a very nice specimen and is priced very reasonably.
PRICE: SOLD |
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