Deutscher Aufbaudienst

D.A.D. symbol

Deutscher Aufbaudienst ('German Construction Service', abbreviated D.A.D.) was an organization of ethnic Germans in Slovakia during World War II, organizing volunteer labour for construction efforts.[1] German sources claimed 19,725 persons participated in the D.A.D. brigades of 1941.[2]

In the summer of 1941 a women's wing of D.A.D. was set up under the leadership of Edith Neumann.[3]

Amongst the buildings constructed by the D.A.D. labour brigades was a sports stadium in Bratislava.[1] Participants in the labour brigades were awarded pins with the D.A.D. symbol in bronze, silver or gild, depending on how many hours of volunteer labour they contributed with.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 David Littlejohn (1 January 1994). Foreign Legions of the Third Reich. R. James Bender Publishing. pp. 52, 54. ISBN 978-0-912138-29-9.
  2. ↑ Nation und Staat; deutsche Zeitschrift fur das europaische minoritatenproblem. 1941. p. 379.
  3. ↑ Tatjana Tönsmeyer (2002). Das Dritte Reich und die Slowakei 1939-1945: politischer Alltag zwischen Kooperation und Eigensinn. Schöningh. p. 317. ISBN 978-3-506-77532-0.
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