1939 German RAD Reichsarbeitsdienst Stainless Steel Teaspoon Spoon THIRD REICH

Description

1939
GERMAN
THIRD REICH
RAD
(
Reichsarbeitsdienst
)
Stainless Steel
Teaspoon  WWII WW2
The Length of the Teaspoon is 14,5
cm (or 5,70
" in).
The abbreviation RAD is inside of the shovel. The shovel along with the ears of wheat are the symbols of the organization RAD.
Marking:
1939 RAD
,
KRUPP
,
BERNDORF
.
The
RAD
signifies "
Reichsarbeitsdienst
",
The
Reich Labour Service
(
Reichsarbeitsdienst
;
RAD
) was a major organisation established in Nazi Germany as an agency to help militarise the workforce and indoctrinate it with Nazi ideology. It was the official state labour service.
Per Reich Labor Service Act of June 26, 1935 " The Reich Labor Service is an honorary service to the German people. All young Germans of both sexes are obliged to serve their people in the Reich Labor Service.The Reich Labor Service is to educate the German youth in the spirit of National Socialism to the national community and to the true working attitude, above all to the due respect of manual labor."
During the early war Norwegian and Western campaigns, hundreds of RAD units were engaged in supplying frontline troops with food and ammunition, repairing damaged roads and constructing and repairing airstrips. Throughout the course of the war, the RAD were involved in many projects. The RAD units constructed coastal fortifications (many RAD men worked on the Atlantic Wall), laid minefields, manned fortifications, and even helped guard vital locations and prisoners.
The role of the RAD was not limited to combat support functions. Hundreds of RAD units received training as anti-aircraft units and were deployed as RAD Flak Batteries. Several RAD units also performed combat on the eastern front as infantry.  During the final months of the war RAD men formed 6 major frontline units, which were involved with serious fighting.
On the western front RAD troops were used as reinforcements to the 9th SS Engineer Abt (SS-Captain Moeller) in the fighting to retake the northern end of the Arnhem bridge from British Paratroopers under Col. Frost. This action was during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944.
Berndorf
is a town in the district of
Baden
in
Lower Austria
in
Austria
. Because of its historic development in the 19th century it is also referred to as the
Krupp
town.
After the
Anschluss
in 1938, the Arthur Krupp company became a part of the German Krupp combine. Because of its industrial importance, Berndorf was also an important target of air attacks.
The
Krupp
family a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, is famous for their production of steel, artillery, ammunition and other armaments.
Alfried
Krupp
was an early supporter of Nazism among German industrialists, joining the SS in 1931, and never disavowing his allegiance to Hitler.
Krupp received its first order for 135 Panzer I tanks in 1933, and during World War II made tanks, artillery, naval guns, armor plate, munitions and other armaments for the German military. Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard launched the cruiser Prinz Eugen, as well as many of Germany's U-boats (130 between 1934 and 1945).In the 1930s, Krupp developed two 800 mm railway guns, the Schwerer Gustav and the Dora. These guns were the biggest artillery pieces ever fielded by an army during wartime, and weighed almost 1,344 tons. More crucial to the operations of the German military was Krupp's development of the famed 88 mm anti-aircraft cannon which found use as a notoriously effective anti-tank gun.
In an address to the
Hitler Youth
,
Adolf Hitler
stated "In our eyes, the German boy of the future must be slim and slender, as fast as a greyhound, tough as leather and hard as
Krupp steel
".
ORIGINAL
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