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<p>[QUOTE="sabre123, post: 9786273, member: 8258"]Maybe you've already determined it's the symbol for the The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD).</p><p><br /></p><p>From wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) was a major paramilitary organization established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service, divided into separate sections for men and women.</p><p><br /></p><p>From June 1935 onward, men aged between 18 and 25 may have served six months before their military service.[vague] 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.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Labour_Service" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Labour_Service" rel="nofollow">Source-></a></p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn't think there'd be any reason to make repros of this, but WDIK? Looks like it has real age to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the others like yours have a white stretch of re-enforced fabric with loops on each end to hang it from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sabre123, post: 9786273, member: 8258"]Maybe you've already determined it's the symbol for the The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD). From wikipedia: The Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst; RAD) was a major paramilitary organization established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help mitigate the effects of unemployment on the German economy, militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service, divided into separate sections for men and women. From June 1935 onward, men aged between 18 and 25 may have served six months before their military service.[vague] 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. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Labour_Service']Source->[/URL] I wouldn't think there'd be any reason to make repros of this, but WDIK? Looks like it has real age to it. Some of the others like yours have a white stretch of re-enforced fabric with loops on each end to hang it from.[/QUOTE]
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