Soldiers of labor : labor service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945 / Kiran Klaus Patel ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.
Originally published in 2005, Soldiers of Labor is a systematic comparison between the labor policies of the Nazi dictatorship and New Deal America. The main subject of the book is the Nazi Labor Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst), a public work scheme that provided work and education for young men. Here...
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2005.
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| Series: | Publications of the German Historical Institute.
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Table of Contents:
- A panacea for the Great Depression? Labor service ideas and their implementation prior to 1933
- Precursors to the labor services
- The situation of young people in the Great Depression
- The precursor in Germany: the FAD from 1931 to 1933 and the involvement of the NSDAP
- Service to the community: the organization of the labor services
- False start into the Third Reich: the organization of the German Labor Service at the beginning of the National Socialist Regime
- From consolidation to the War-time deployment of the RAD
- Between ideology and economics: the admissions criteria of the German Labor Service
- The organization of the Civilian Conservation Corps
- Interim conclusion
- "Citizens," Volksgenossen, and soldiers: education in the Labor Services
- The education concept of the German Labor Service
- "School of manhood" between prescription and practice
- "The school of the nation": political indoctrination and organized recreation
- Education in the Civilian Conservation Corps
- Interim conclusion
- In "The grandeurs of nature": the work of the Labor Services
- Work planning and areas of work in the German Labor Service
- Glorification and pragmatic compromise: the concept and practice of work in the German Labor Service
- The Labor Service at work: new challenges in the large-scale deployments beginning in 1937
- Work in the Civilian Conservation Corps
- Interim conclusion.
