• Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD), a National Labour Service.

•The RAD was formed in July 1934 as the official state labor service.

• RAD members were to provide service for various civic, military & agricultural construction projects. Konstantin Hierl was its leader all through the organization's lifetime.

• Broke down class barriers and gave men jobs in public work schemes like building Schools and Hospitals

• Wore military uniforms and lived in camps

• Given only pocket money as wages

• For thousands of men it was better than life with no work at all

• Free meals were given

• In 1935 it was compulsory for men at the age of 18-25 year old to do 6 months service in RAD.

• Work was usually exhausting.

• Many Jews and Womens were forced out of their jobs.

• In March 1935 a Compulsory Military Service was started for young men and air force was set up.

• The army grew quickly from 100, 000 men in 1933 to 1, 400,000 in 1939.

• Hitler abolished all trade unions and set up the German Labour Front in their place.

• Dr Robert Ley, a former chemist, is the leader of the German Labour Front.

• He made some improvements in the life of the workers, making sure bosses couldn’t sack workers on the spot, workers couldn’t leave the a job without the government’s permission and that only government run labour exchanges.

• He abolished the right of the workers to bargain for higher wages, made strikes illegal and got rid of the limitations on the number of hours a worker could be made to work.

• By 1939 many Germans found themselves working 60-72 hours a week

(D.A F)

• Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled every part of people’s lives including their free time.

• Stands for Kraft Durch Freude, meaning “Strength through Joy”.

• Leader of KDF was Dr Robert Ley, who was also the leader of the German Labour Front

• It did not confine itself to trips and concerts and it also got involved in a scheme to enable German workers to buy their own car, the “Volkswagon Project” (‘people’s car’).

• Dr Ley persuaded people to hire purchase the car before the Volkswagon factory goes into production

•But none of the customers received a car by the time WW2 broke out in 1939 and none of the money paid for the cars was ever refunded.

• The Volkswagon plant then had turned into weapons production.

•KDF gave them cheap theatre & cinema tickets,& organised courses, trips,& sports events.