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    The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) was a major paramilitary organization established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the...
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    figure in the administration of Nazi Germany. He was the head of the Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) a Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party and an...
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    able to draw on "conscripted" (i.e. compulsory) labour from within Germany through the Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst, RAD). The period from 1938...
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    insignia of the Reichsarbeitsdienst were paramilitary ranks used by the Reich Labour Service of Nazi Germany. Used in 1940 Obertruppführer Truppführer Untertruppführer...
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  • Fritz Hartnagel (category Reich Labour Service members)
    Friedrich "Fritz" Hartnagel (February 4, 1917 – April 29, 2001) was a lawyer and soldier of the Wehrmacht during World War II. In the 1950s, Hartnagel...
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    Heinrich Ratjen (category Reich Labour Service members)
    Heinrich Ratjen (20 November 1918 – 22 April 2008), born Dora Ratjen, was a German athlete who competed for Germany in the women's high jump at the 1936...
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    (People's Storm) Reich Security Main Office (RSHA – Reichssicherheitshauptamt) Reinhard Heydrich, Ernst Kaltenbrunner Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst...
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  • Female Reich Labour Service was extended with another six months in the Kriegshilfsdienst (the auxiliary war service). The auxiliary war service of RAD...
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    to draw on "conscripted" (i.e., compulsory) labour, from within Germany, through the Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst, RAD).[citation needed]...
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  • Hans Schwerte (category Reich Labour Service members)
    from Berlin to Lübeck, where he used his contacts in the SD (intelligence service) to obtain a new identity as Hans Schwerte, born in Hildesheim on 3 October...
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  • Sophie Scholl (category Reich Labour Service members)
    that it would be recognized as an alternative service in the Reichsarbeitsdienst (National Labor Service), a prerequisite for admission to university....
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    Siegfried Müller (mercenary) (category Reich Labour Service members)
    Jungvolk, reaching the rank of Fähnleinführer. He later served in the Reich Labour Service, and joined the Wehrmacht in 1939. He first experienced action during...
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    students also had to serve six months in a labour camp for the Reich Labour Service; an additional ten weeks service were required of second-year students...
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    Werner Goldberg (category Reich Labour Service members)
    At the beginning of 1938, Goldberg served a six-month term in the Reich Labour Service whose uniform, as Goldberg later recalled, "had a swastika on an...
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    (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force), as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reich Labour Service and the Volkssturm (German People storm militia), along with personnel...
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    Georg Ratzinger (category Reich Labour Service members)
    Georg Ratzinger PA (15 January 1924 – 1 July 2020) was a German Catholic priest and musician, known for his work as the conductor of the Regensburger Domspatzen...
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    000 RM, all but 40,000 RM borne by the city. The participation of Reich Labour Service workers was exaggerated for propaganda purposes; the majority of...
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    Willi Herold (category Reich Labour Service members)
    apprenticeship in 1943. Between June and September 1943, Herold served his Reich Labour Service on the Atlantic Wall in German-occupied France. Three weeks after...
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  • Herms Niel (category Reich Labour Service members)
    Brian (2002). "The Reich's Song Composers, Lyricists & Performers". The Military Music & Bandsmen of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich 1933 - 1945. Tomahawk...
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    April 1945 upon the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich by President Paul von Hindenburg. It was contrived by the national conservative...
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    unarmed men in uniform, such as railway officials and members of the Reich Labour Service (Beevor 2002, p. 287). A number of sources cited in this article...
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  • Inge Morath (category Reich Labour Service members)
    Abitur and was obliged to complete six months of service for the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service) before entering Berlin University. At university...
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    mass grave already containing bodies; behind, a group of SS and Reich Labour Service men watch. The photograph dates from some time between mid-1941,...
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    Gerhard Barkhorn (category Reich Labour Service members)
    started his compulsory Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service) with Arbeitsdienstabteilung 6/12, a labor service department, in Mehlkehmen, present-day...
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  • Hans Scholl (category Reich Labour Service members)
    never spoke about the charges. In spring of 1937, he joined the Reich Labour Service, having volunteered for duty. He was discharged in March 1939 to...
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    Manfred Rommel (category Reich Labour Service members)
    principal military adversaries. Rommel was born in Stuttgart and entered service as a Luftwaffenhelfer (air force assistant) in 1943 at age 14, serving...
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  • Hermann, ed. (2002). Biographisches Lexikon zum Dritten Reich [Biographical lexicon to the Third Reich] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch...
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  • Inge Müller (category Reich Labour Service members)
    Inge Müller (born Inge Meyer) (13 March 1925 – 1 June 1966) was an East German author and the second wife of East German playwright Heiner Müller. Inge...
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  • Ernst Barkmann (category Reich Labour Service members)
    Barkmann joined the Nazi Party on 1 September 1938 and served in the Reich Labour Service from November 1938 to March 1939. After this he joined the SS on...
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    Bernhard Seeger (category Reich Labour Service members)
    Bernhard Seeger (October 6, 1927 – March 14, 1999) was a German author. Bernhard Seeger was born to a locksmith in Roßlau. He attended the gymnasium and...
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